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ADAPTED TO THE QUESTIONS OF 

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PREFACE. 



The chief aim of this Book is to contribute something, how- 
soever little, to the great work of popularizing the Sacred 
Scriptures. To this end, all of the more important and inter- 
esting passages are here presented, iapart from their less attract- 
ive surroundings, while the text, though losing nothing of its 
original simplicity, is reduced, for brevity's sake, to the merest 
narrative. The volume is designed to accommodate at least 
three classes of persons, viz : Catechists, students in a general 
wa}^ of the Holy Bible, and Preachers of the Word of God. 

Experience amply proves that in the Academy, and Paro- 
chial, as well as in the Sunday school, the ideal Teacher of 
Christian Doctrine must be equally ready to instruct and to 
entertain. The natural passion of children for stories should 
be so utilized that the story become the vehicle of truth. Doc- 
trine thus imparted is grasped more easily and more eagerly 
and is longer remembered. The only diflSculty in this method 
is, that it taxes so severely the inventive genius of the Teacher 
that the " Sunday school story " is usually either entirely irrel- 
evant, or so utterl}^ devoid of point and truth as to have become 
a byword and a reproach. Here then is an opportunity to dif- 
fuse a knowledge of the Bible by means of these charming little 
histories that foreshadow or assert or beautifull}^ illustrate the 
chief truths of our Religion. 

It is a deplorable fact that to ver}^ many of our people the 
Holy Scriptures are a sealed Book, and the Life of Christ, a 
mass of events confused and vague. Howsoever eager they 
may be to learn, the ponderous family Bible is a powerful dis- 
couragement to personal research. The result is that in ser- 

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mons and instructions allusions are being constantly made 
which are lost on the hearers, and the broad and firm founda- 
tions of our Religion in Holy Writ are rarely appreciated. 
Protestants, too, already fairly conversant with the Scriptures, 
and desirous of becoming Catholics, are strongly impressed on 
finding that, as the two Cherubim gazed ever one upon the 
other and joined their wings over the Ark of the Covenant, so 
the two Testaments reflect each other and find their natural 
centre in the Catholic Church. 

It is hoped also that this volume may prove convenient in the 
Pulpit. A striking text or pertinent story often serves to rouse 
the flagging interest of a congregation. " Search the Scrip- 
tures," says the Apostle, " for every Scripture inspired of God 
is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, to instruct in jus- 
tice, that the man of God may be perfect, furnished to every 
good work." The Compiler. 



CATECHISM. 



LESSON FIRST. 



ON THE END OF MAN. 



Q. "Who made the world ? 

(Acts 17 : 27.) God made 
the world, and all things there- 
in, and being Lord of heaven 
and earth He dwelleth not in 
temples made with hands. 

Q. ^Who is God ? 

(Acts 14: 14. A.M.I.) God 
made the heaven, and the earth, 
and the sea, and all things that 
are in them, upholding all 
things by the word of his pow- 
er. It is God who worketh in 
you, both to will and to accom- 
plish. He is the Alpha and 
Omega, the first and the last, 
the beginning and the end. 

(Ex. 3: 14-15. A. M. 2513.) 
God said to Moses : I am who 
AM. He said: Thus shalt thou 
say to the children of Israel : He 
WHO IS, hath sent me to you. 
And God said again to Moses : 
Thus shalt thou say to the 
children of Israel : The Lord 
God of your fathers, the God 
of Abraham, the God of Isaac, 
and the God of Jacob, hath sent 
me to you : This is my name for 



ever, and this is my memorial 
unto all generations. 

(Ex. 6: 2-3.) And the Lord 
spoke to Moses, saying : I am 
the Lord, that appeared to 
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Ja- 
cob, by the name of God Al- 
mighty ; and my name Adonai 
I did not shew them. 

Q. What is man? 

(Gen. 2: 7. A. M. 1.) The 
Lord God formed man of the 
slime of the earth : and 
breathed into his face the breath 
of life, and man became a liv- 
ing^ soul. 

^(Gen. 1 : 27.) And God created 
man to his own image: to the 
image of God he created him : 
male and female he created 
them. 

(Job 14 : 1-2.) Man born of 
a woman, living for a short 
time, is filled with many mis- 
eries. Who Cometh forth like 
a flower, and is destroyed, and 
fleeth as a shadow, and never 
continueth in the same state. 

(Job 14 : 10-12.) But man 
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when he shall be dead, and 
stripped and consumed, I pray 
3^ou where is he ? As if the 
waters should depart out of the 
sea, and an emptied river 
should be dried up : so man 
when he is fallen asleep shall 
not rise again till the heavens 
be broken. 

(Job 19: 25-27.) But I know 
that my Redeemer liveth, and 
in the last day I shall rise out 
of the earth. And I shall be 
clothed again with my skin, 
and in m}^ flesh I shall see my 
God. Whom I myself shall 
see, and my eyes shall behold, 
and not another : this my hope 
is laid up in my bosom. 

Q. Is this likeness in the 
body or in the soul ? 

(Gen. 1 : 26.) God saw that 
it was good. And he said : 
Let us make man to our image 
and likeness. 

Q. How is the soul like to 
God? 

(Wisd. 2 : 23.) God created 
man incorruptible, and to the 
image of his own likeness he 
made him. 

Q. "Why did G-od make you ? 

See "L. of C.,"p. 76, No. 18. 

(Rom. 9: 18-23.) He hath 
mercy on whom he will ; and 
whom he will, he hardeneth. 
Thou wilt say therefore to me : 
Why doth he then find fault? 
for who resisteth his will ? 
man, who art thou that repliest 
against God ? Shall the thing 
formed say to him that formed 



it : Why hast thou made me 
thus? Or hath not the potter 
power over the c^y, of the 
same lump, to make one vessel 
unto honour, and another unto 
dishonour? What if God, will- 
ing to shew his wrath, and to 
make his power known, endured 
with much patience vessels of 
wrath, fitted for destruction. 
That he might shew the riches 
of his glory on the vessels of 
mercy, which he hath prepared 
unto glory ? 

(Deut. 10: 12-14.) And now, 
Israel, what doth the Lord thy 
God require of thee, but that 
thou fear the Lord thy God, and 
walk in his waj's, and love him, 
and serve the Lord thy God, 
with all thy heart, and with all 
thy soul: and keep the com- 
mandments of the Lord, and 
his ceremonies, which I com- 
mand thee this day, that it 
may be well with thee ? Be- 
hold heaven is the Lord's thy 
God, and the heaven of heaven, 
the earth and all things that 
are therein. 

Q. Of -which must -we take 
more care, our soul or our 
body? 

See "L. ofC.,"p. 50, :No. 11; p. 65, No. 28. 

(Jer. 17: 5-8.) Thus saith 
the Lord: Cursed be the man 
that trusteth in man, and mak- 
eth flesh his arm, and whose 
heart departeth from the Lord. 
For he shall be like tamaric in 
the desert, and he shall not see 
when good shall come : but he 
shall dwell in dryness in the 
desert in a salt land, and not 



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inhabited. Blessed be the man 
that trusteth in the Lord, and 
the Lord shall be his confi- 
dence. And he shall be as a 
tree that is planted by the wa- 
ters, that spreadeth out its roots 
towards moisture : and it shall 
not fear when the heat cometh. 
And the leaf thereof shall be 
green, and in the time of 
drought it shall not be solici- 
tous, neither shall it cease at 
any time to bring forth fruit. 

Q. Why must -we take more 
care of our soul than of our 
body ? 

See " L. of C," p. 87, No. 19. 

(Jer. 18: 1-10.) The word 
that came to Jeremias from the 
Lord, sa3'ing : Arise, and go 
down into the potter's house, 
and there thou shalt hear my 
words. And I went down into 
the potter's house, and behold 
he was doing a work on the 
wheel. And the vessel was 
broken which he was making 
of clay with his hands : and 
turning he made another vessel, 
as it seemed good in his eyes to 
make it. Then the word of the 
Lord came to me, saying : Can- 
not I do with you, as this pot- 
ter, O house of Israel, saith the 
Lord ? behold as clay is in the 
hand of the potter, so are you 
in my hand, house of Israel. 
I will suddenly speak against a 
nation, and against a kingdom, 
to root out, and to pull down, 
and to destroy it. If that 
nation against which I have 
spoken, shall repent of their 
evil, I also will repent of the 



evil that I have thought to do 
to them. And I will suddenly 
speak of a nation and of a king- 
dom, to build up and plant it. 
If it shall do evil in my sight, 
that it obey not my voice : I 
will repent of the good that I 
have spoken to do unto it. 

(Jer. 19: 1, 10-11.) Thus 
said the Lord : Go, and take a 
potter's earthen bottle, and take 
of the ancients of the people, 
and of the ancients of the 
priests : and thou shalt break 
the bottle in the sight of the 
men that shall go with thee. 
And thou shalt say to them : 
Thus saith the Lord of hosts : 
Even so will I break this peo- 
ple, and this city, as the pot- 
ter's vessel is broken, which 
cannot be made whole again. 

Q. "What must we do to save 
our souls ? 

See " L. of C," p. 55, No. 7 ; p. 81, No. 7. 

(2 Esdras 4: 16-20. A.M.3550.) 
Now it came to pass from that 
day forward, that half of their 
young men did the work, and 
half were ready for to fight, with 
spears, and shields, and bows, 
and coats of mail, and the rul- 
ers w^ere behind them in all the 
house of Juda. Of them that 
built on the wall and that car- 
ried burdens, and that laded: 
with one of his hands he did 
the work, and with the other 
he held a sword. For every 
one of the builders w^as girded 
with a sword about his reins. 
And they built, and sounded 
w^ith a trumpet by me. And I 
said to the nobles, and to the 



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magistrates, and to the rest of 
the common people : The work 
is great and wide, and we are 
separated on the wall one far 
from another : in what place 
soever you shall hear the sound 
of the trumpet, run all thither 
unto us : our God will fight for 
us. 

(Num. 32: 1-7. A. M. 2553.) 
Now the sons of Ruben and 
Gad had many flocks of cattle, 
and their substance in beasts 
was infinite. And when they 
saw the lands of Jazer and 
Galaad fit for feeding cattle, 
they came to Moses and Elea- 
zar the priest, and the princes 
of the multitude, and said : We 
pray thee, if we have found fa- 
vour in thy sight, that thou 
give it to us thy servants in 
possession, and make us not 
pass over the Jordan. And 
Moses answered them : What, 
shall your brethren go to fight, 
and will you sit here? Why 
do ye overturn the minds of 
the children of Israel, that they 
may not dare to pass into the 
place which the Lord hath given 
them ? 

(III. King 6 : 7.) Now the 
house, when it was in build- 
ing, was built of stones hewed 
and made ready : so that there 
was neither hammer nor axe 
nor any tool of iron heard in 
the house when it was in build- 
ing. 



Q. Ho"w shall -we know the 
things which we are to be- 
lieve ? 

(Luke 10 : 16.) He that hear- 
eth you, heareth me; and he 
that despiseth you, despiseth 
me ; and he that despiseth me, 
despiseth him that sent me. 

(II. Tim. 3.) But continue 
thou in those things which thou 
hast learned, and which have 
been committed to thee : know- 
ing of whom thou hast learned 
them; and because from th}^ 
infancy thou hast known the 
holy scriptures, which can in- 
struct thee to salvation, by the 
faith which is in Christ Jesus. 
All scripture, inspired of God, 
is profitable to teach, to re- 
prove, to correct, to instruct in 
justice, that the man of God 
may be perfect furnished to 
every good work. 

(Mic. 4.) It shall come to 
pass in the last days that the 
mountain of the house of the 
Lord shall be prepared in the 
top of mountains, and high 
above the hills : and people 
shall flow to it. And many na- 
tions shall come in haste and 
say : Come, let us go up to the 
mountain of the Lord, and to 
the house of the God of Jacob : 
and he will teach us of his ways, 
and we will walk in his paths : 
for the law shall go forth out of 
Sion, and the word of the Lord 
out of Jerusalem. 



CATECmS3f. 
LESSON SECOND. 



9 



ON GOD AND HIS PERFECTIONS. 



Q. "What is God? 

(Heb. 12.) Our God is a 
consuming fire. 

(Wisd. 13.) All men are 
vain, in whom there is not the 
knowledge of God : and who by 
these good things that are seen, 
could not understand him that 
is, neither by attending to the 
works have acknowledged who 
was the workman ; but have 
imagined either the fire, or the 
wind, or the swift air, or the 
circle of the stars, or the great 
water, or the sun and moon, to 
be the gods that rule the world. 
With whose beauty if they 
being delighted, took them to 
be gods : let them know how 
much the Lord of them is more 
beautiful than they : for the 
first author of beauty made all 
those things. Or if they ad- 
mired their power and their ef- 
fects, let them understand by 
them, that he that made them, 
is mightier than they : for by 
the greatness of the beauty, and 
of the creature, the creator of 
them may be seen, so as to be 
known thereby. 

Q. Had God a beginning ? 

See "L. of C.,"p. 60, No. 19. 

(Apoc. 1.) I am Alpha and 
Omega, the beginning and the 
end, saith the Lord God, who 
is, and who was, and who is to 
come, the Almighty. 

Q. "Where is God ? 

(Ps. 138.) Whither shall I 



go from thy spirit ? or whither 
shall I flee from thy face ? If 
I ascend into heaven, thou art 
there : if I descend into hell, 
thou art present. If I take my 
wings early in the morning, 
and dwell in the uttermost 
parts of the sea : even there 
also shall thy hand lead me : 
and thy right hand shall hold 
me. And I said : Perhaps 
darkness shall cover me : and 
night shall be my light in my 
pleasures. But darkness shall 
not be dark to thee, and night 
shall be light as the day : the 
darkness thereof, and the light 
thereof are alike to thee. 

Q. If God is every wherej-why 
do 'we not see Him ? 

(I. Tim. 1.) Now to the king 
of ages, immortal, invisible, the 
only God, be honour and glory 
for ever and ever. Amen. 

(I. Tim. 6.) Keep thou the 
commandment without spot, 
blameless, unto the coming of 
our Lord Jesus Chr/st, which 
in his times he shall shew who 
is the Blessed and only Mighty, 
the King of kings, and Lord of 
lords ; who only hath immor- 
tality, and inhabiteth light in- 
accessible, whom no man hath 
seen, nor can see : to whom be 
honour and empire everlasting. 
Amen. 

Q. Does God see us ? 

(Matt. 6.) I say to you, be 
not solicitous for your life, what 



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you shall eat, nor for your bodj- 
what you shall put on. Is not 
the life more than the meat : 
and the body more than the 
raiment ? Behold the birds of 
the air, for tbey neither sow, 
nor do they reap, nor gather 
into barns : and your heavenly 
Father feedeth them. Are not 
you of much more value than 
they? And which of you b}^ 
taking thought, can add to his 
stature one cubit ? And for 
raiment why are you solicitous? 
Consider the lilies of the field 
how they grow : they labour 
not, neither do they spin. But 
I say to you, that not even Sol- 
omon in all his glory was ar- 
rayed as one of these. And if 
the grass of the field, which is 
to-day, and to-morrow is cast 
into the oven, God doth so 
clothe : how much more 3'ou, O 
ye of little faith ? Be not solic- 
itous therefore, saying. What 
shall we eat : or what shall we 
drink, or wherewith shall we be 
clothed ? For after all these 
things do the heathens seek. 
For 3^our Father knoweth that 
you have need of all these 
things. 

(Deut. 4.) Neither is there 
any other nation so great, that 
hath God so nigh them, as our 
God is present to all our peti- 
tions. 

Q. Does Grod know all things ? 

(Eccltus. 23.) Darkness com- 
passeth me about, and the walls 
cover me, and no man seeth me : 
whom do I fear ? the most High 
will not remember my sins. 



And he understandeth not that 
his eye seeth all things, for such 
a man's fear driveth from him 
the fear of God, and the eyes of 
men fearing him : and he know- 
eth not that the eyes of the 
Lord are far brighter than the 
sun, beholding round about all 
the ways of men, and the bot- 
tom of the deep, and looking 
into the hearts of men, into the 
most hidden parts. For all 
things were known to the Lord 
God, before they were created : 
so also after they were perfected 
he beholdeth all things. 

Q. Can G-od do all things ? 

See''L. of C.,"p.8, No. 4. 

(Judith 15.) Adonai Lord, 
great art thou, and glorious in 
thy power, and no one can over- 
come thee. Let all thy crea- 
tures serve thee : because thou 
hast spoken, and they were 
made : thou didst send forth thy 
Spirit, and they were created, 
and there is no one that can re- 
sist thy voice. 

Q. Is Grod just, holy and mer- 
ciful ? 

(Job 34.) Ye men of under- 
standing, hear me : far from 
God be wickedness, and iniquit}^ 
from the Almighty. For he 
will render to a man his work, 
and according to the ways of 
every one he will reward them. 
For in very deed God will not 
condemn without cause, neither 
will the Almighty pervert judg- 
ment. The Lord is patient and 
full of mercy. 



CATECHISM. 
LESSON THIRD. 



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ON THE UNITY AND TRINITY OF *GOD. 



Q. Is there but one Grod ? 

(Isa. 45.) I am the Lord, and 
there is none else : there is no 
God besides me. 

Q. Why can there be but 
one God ? 

(Isa. 44.) I am the first, and 
I am the last, and besides me 
there is no God. Who is like 
to me ? let him call and declare : 
and let him set before me the 
order since I appointed the 
ancient people : and the things 
to come, and that shall be here- 
after, let them shew unto them. 

Q. How many persons are 
there in God ? 

(I. John 5.) And there are 
three who give testimony in 
heaven, the Father, the Word, 
and the Holy Ghost. And 
these three are one. And there | 
are three that give testimony | 
on earth : the spirit, and the i 
water, and the blood : and these 
three are one. 

Q. Is the Father God ? 

(John 20 : IT.) I ascend to 
My Father and to 3^onr Father, 
to My God and your God. 

Q. Is the Son God ? 

See "L. of C," p. 59, No 15; p. 17, No. 1. 

(Col. 1 : 12-20.) Give thanks 
to God the Father, who hath 
made us worthj^ to be partakers 
of the lot of the saints in light, 
who hath delivered us from the 
power of darkness, and hath 
translated us into the kingdom 



of the Son of his love. In whom 
we have redemption through 
his blood, the remission of sins ; 
who is the image of the invis- 
ible God, the first-born of every 
creature : for in him were all 
things created in heaven and on 
earth, visible and invisible, 
whether thrones, or domina- 
tions, or principalities, or pow- 
ers : all things were created by 
him and in him. And he is be- 
fore all, and by him all things 
consist. And he is the head of 
the body, the church, who is 
the beginning, the first-born 
from the dead ; that in all 
things he may hold the pri- 
macy : because in him it hath 
well-pleased the Father, that all 
fulness should dwell ; and 
through him to reconcile all 
things unto himself, making 
peace through the blood of his 
cross, both as to the things that 
are on earth, and the things 
that are in heaven. 

Q. Is the Holy Ghost God ? 

(John 15.) When the Para- 
clete Cometh, whom I will send 
you from the Father, the Spirit 
of truth, who proceedeth from 
the Father, he shall give testi- 
mony of me. 

Q. "What do you mean by 
the Blessed Trinity ? 

See "L. of C," p. 106, No. 10. 

Q. Are the three Divine Per- 
sons equal in all things ? 
See ''L. of C," p. 103, Ko. 3. 



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Q. Are the three Divine Per- 
sons one and the same G-od ? 
See '• L. ol C," p. 58, No. 14 ; o. 102, No. 1. 

Q. Can "we fully understand 
hoTV the three Divine Per- 
sons are one and the same 
God? 

See "L. of C," p. 53, No. 16. 

(Rom. 11.) O the depth of 
the riches of the wisdom and of 
the knowledge of God! How 
incomprehensible are his judg- 
ments, and how unsearchable 
his ways 1 For who hath known 
the mind of the Lord ? Or who 
hath been his counsellor ? Or 
who hath first given to him, 
and recompense shall be made 
him ? For of him, and by him. 



and in him, are all things: to 
him be glory for ever. Amen. 

Q. What is a mystery ? 

We know in part, and we 
prophesy in part. But when 
that which is perfect is come, 
that which is in part shall be 
done away. When I was a 
child, I spoke as a child, I un- 
derstood as a child, I thought 
as a child. But, when I became 
a man, I put away the things 
of a child. We see now through 
a glass in a dark manner ; but 
then face to face. Now I know 
in part ; but then I shall know 
even as I am known. 



LESSON FOURTH. 



ON CREATION. 



Q. Who created heaven and 
earth, and all things ? 

(Gen. 1. A. M. L) In the 
beginning God created heaven, 
and earth. And the earth was 
void and empty, and darkness 
was upon the face of the deep ; 
and the spirit of God moved 
over the waters. And God 
said: Be lio^ht made. And light 
was made. And he called the 
light Day, and the darkness 
Night ; and there was evening 
and morning one day. And 
God made a firmament, and di- 
vided the waters that were un- 
der the firmament, from those 
that were above the firmament, 
and it was so. And God called 



the firmament. Heaven ; and 
the evening and morning were 
the second day. God also said ; 
Let the waters that are under 
the heaven, be gathered to- 
gether into one place: and let 
the dry land appear. And it 
was so done. And he said : 
Let the earth bring forth the 
green herb, luid such as may 
seed, and the fruit tree yielding 
fruit after its kind, which may 
have seed in itself upon the 
earth. And it was so done. 
And the evening and the morn- 
ing w^ere the third day. And 
God made two great lights : a 
greater light to rule the day ; 
and a lesser light to rule the 



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night ; and the stars. And the 
evening and morning were the 
fourth day. And God created 
the great whales, and every liv- 
ing and moving creature, which 
the waters brought forth, ac- 
cording to their kinds, and 
every winged fowl according to 
its kind. And God saw that it 
was good. And he blessed them, 
saying : Increase and multipl>^, 
and till the waters of the sea : 
and let the birds be multiplied 
upon the earth. And the even- 
ing and morning were the fifth 
day. And God made the beasts 
of the earth according to their 
kinds, and cattle, and every 
thing that creepeth on the earth 
after its kind. And God saw 
that it was good. And God 
created man to his own image : 
to the image of God he created 
him : male and female he cre- 
ated them. And God blessed 
them, saying : Increase and 
multiply, and fill the earth, and 
subdue it, and rule over the 
fishes of the sea, and the fowls 
of the air, and all living crea- 
tures that move upon the earth. 
And the evening and morning 
were the sixth day. 

Q. Ho-w did Grod create 
heaven and earth ? 

(Ps. 32.) By the word of 
the Lord the heavens were 
established ; and all the power 
of them by the spirit of his 
mouth : gathering together the 
waters of the sea, as in a A^es- 
sel ; laying up the depths in 
store-houses. Let all the earth 
fear the Lord, and let all the 
inhabitants of the world be in 



awe of him. For he spoke and 
they were made: he com- 
manded and they were created. 

Q. "Which are the chief crea- 
tures of G-od ? 

(Col. 1.) For in him were 
all things created in heaven and 
on earth, visible and invisible, 
whether thrones, or domina- 
tions, or principalities, or pow- 
ers : all things were created by 
him and in him. 

(Gen. 1.) And he said : Let 
us make man to our image and 
likeness : and let him have do- 
minion over the fishes of the 
sea, and the fowls of the air, 
and the beasts, and the whole 
earth, and ever}' creaping crea- 
ture that moveth upon the 
earth. 

Q. "What are angels ? 

(Ezek. 28.) Thou wast the 
seal of resemblance, full of wis- 
dom, and perfect in beauty, thou 
wast in the pleasures of the 
paradise of God: thou a cherub 
stretched out, and protecting, 
and I set thee in the holy moun- 
tain of God, thou hast walked 
in the midst of the stones of 
fire. Thou wast perfect in th}^ 
ways from the day of thy crea- 
tion, until iniquity was found 
in thee. 

Q. "Were the angels creat- 
ed for any other purpose? 

See"L. of C.,"p. 7, Nos. 1-2-3; p. 72, 
No. 8. 

(Acts 12. A. D. 42.) Peter 
was kept in prison. But prayer 
was made without ceasing 
by the church unto God for 
him. And when Herod would 



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have brought him forth, the 
same night Peter was sleeping 
between two soldiers, bound 
with two chains : and the keep- 
ers before the door kept the 
prison. And behold an Angel 
of the Lord stood by him : and 
a light shined in the room : and 
he striking Peter on the side, 
raised him up, saying ; Arise 
quickly. And the chains fell 
off from his hands. And the 
Angel said to him: Gird thy- 
self, and put on thy sandals. 
And he did so. And he said to 
him : Cast thy garment about 
thee, and follow me. And go- 
ing out, he followed him, and 
he knew not that it was true 
which was done by the Angel : 
but thought he saw a vision. 
And passing through the first 
and the second ward, they came 
to the iron gate that leadeth to 
the city, which of itself opened 
to them. And going out, they 
passed on through one street : 
and immediately the Angel de- 
parted from him. And Peter 
coming to himself, said: Now 
I know in very deed, that the 
Lord hath sent his Angel, and 
hath delivered me out of the 
li9,nd of Herod, and from all 
the expectation of the people 
of the Jews. 

(Gen. 18-19. A. J\L 2157.) 
The Lord appeared to Abraham 
in the vale of Mambre as he 
was sitting at the door of his 
tent, in the very heat of the 
day. And when he had lifted 
up his eyes, there appeared to 
him three men standing near 
him : and as soon as he saw 



them he ran to meet them from 
the door of his tent, and adored 
down to the ground. And he 
said : Lord, if I have found 
favour in thy sight, pass not 
away from thy servant : and 
when they had eaten, they said 
unto him : Where is Sara thy 
wife ? He answered : Lo, she 
is in the tent. And he said to 
him : I will return and come to 
thee at this time, life accom- 
panying, and Sara thy wife shall 
have a son. And the two an- 
gels came to Sodom in the even- 
ing, and Lot was sitting in 
the gate of the city. And they 
said to Lot : Hast thou here 
any of thine? son-in-law, or 
sons, or daughters, all that are 
thine bring them out of this 
city : for we will destroy this 
place, because their cry is 
grown loud before the Lord, 
who hath sent us to destroy 
them. So Lot went out, and 
spoke to his sons-in-law that 
were to have his daughters, and 
said : Arise : get you out of 
this place, because the Lord 
will destroy this city. And 
he seemed to them to speak as 
it were in jest. And when it 
was morning, the angels pressed 
him, saying : Arise, take thy 
wife, and the two daughters 
which thou hast : lest thou also 
perish in the wickedness of the 
city. And as he lingered, the}'' 
took his hand, and the hand of 
his wife, and of his two daugh- 
ters, because the Lord spared 
him. And they brought him 
forth, and set him without the 
city : and there they spoke to 



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him, saying : Save thy life : 
look not back, neither stay thou 
in all the country about : 
but save thyself in the moun- 
tain, lest thou be also consumed. 
And Lot entered into Segor. 
And his wife looking behind 
her, was turned into a statue of 
salt. And the Lord rained up- 
on Sodom and Gomorrha brim- 
stone and fire from the Lord 
out of heaven. 

(Ps. 90.) There shall no 
evil come to thee : nor shall the 
scourge come near thy dwell- 
ing. For he hath given his 
Angels charge over thee ; to 
keep thee in all thy w^ays. In 
their hands they shall bear thee 
up ; lest thou dash thy foot 
against a stone. 

Q. ^Vere the angels, as God. 
created them, good and 
happy ? 

(IIL Kings 10. A.M. 3023.) 
When the queen of Saba saw 
all the wisdom of Solomon, and 
the house which he had built, 
and the meat of his table, and 
the apartments of his servants, 
and the order of his ministers, 
and their apparel, and the cup- 
bearers, and the holocausts, 
which he offered in the house of 
the Lord : she had no longer 
any spirit in her, and she said 
to the king : The report is true, 
which I heard in my own coun- 
try, concerning thy words, and 
concerning thy wisdom. And 
I did not believe them that told 
me, till I came myself, and saw 
with my own eyes, and have 
found that the half hath not 
been told me : thy wisdom and 



thy works, exceed the fame 
which 1 heard. Blessed are thy 
men, and blessed are thy serv- 
ants, who stand before thee al- 
ways, and hear thy wisdom. 

Q. Did all the angels remain 
good and happy ? 

(Apoc. 12.) There was a 
great battle in heaven, Michael 
and his angels fought with the 
dragon, and the dragon fought 
and his angels : and they pre- 
vailed not, neither was their 
l^lace found any more in heaven. 
And that great dragon was cast 
out, that old serpent, who is 
called the devil and satan, who 
seduceth the whole w^orld ; and 
he was cast unto the earth, and 
his angels were thrown down 
with him. 

(Luke 10.) The seventy-two 
returned wuth joy, saying: 
Lord, the devils also are subject 
to ns in thy name. And he 
said to them : I saw satan like 
lightning falling from heaven. 

(Jude 3.) The angels who 
kept not their principality, but 
forsook their own habitation, he 
hath reserved under darkness 
in everlasting chains, unto the 
judgment of the great day. 

(II. Peter 2.) For if God 
spared not the angels that 
sinned, but delivered them, 
drawn down by infernal ropes 
to the lower hell, unto torments, 
to be reserved unto judgment : 
the Lord knoweth how to de- 
liver the godl}' from temptation, 
but to reserve the unjust unto 
the day of judgment to be tor- 
mented. 



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LESSON FIFTH. 



ON OUR FIRST PARENTS AND THE FALL. 



Q. "Who "were the first man 
and woman ? 

(Gen. 2. A.M. 1.) The Lord 
God formed man of the slime 
of the earth and breathed into 
his face the breath of life, and 
man became a living soul. 
And the Lord God said. It is 
not good for man to be alone : 
let us make him a help like 
unto himself. Then the Lord 
God cast a deep sleep up*n 
Adam: and when he was fast 
asleep, he took one of his ribs, 
and filled up flesh for it. And 
the Lord God built the rib 
which he took from Adam into 
a woman : and brought her to 
Adam. And Adam said : This 
now is bone of my bones, and 
flesh of my flesh ; she shall be 
called woman, because she was 
taken out of man. Wherefore 
a man shall leave father and 
mother, and shall cleave to his 
wife : and they shall be two in 
one flesh. 

(Gen. 3.) And Adam called 
tlie name of his wife Eve : be- 
cause she was the mother of all 
the living. 

Q. Were Adam and Eve in- 
nocent and holy when they 
came from the hand of God ? 

(Wisd. 1.) God made not 
death, neither hath he pleasure 
in the destruction of the living. 
For he created all things tljat 
they might be : and he made the 
nations of the earth for health : 
and there is no poison of de- 



struction in them, nor kingdom 
of hell upon the earth. For 
justice is perpetual and immor- 
tal. 

(Wisd. 2.) For God created 
man incorruptible, and to the 
image of his own likeness he 
made him. But by the envy 
of the devil, death came into 
the world. 

(Gen. 2.) And they were 
both naked : to wit, Adam and 
his wife : and were not ashamed. 

Q. Did Grod give any com- 
mand to Adam and Eve ? 

(Gen. 2.) The Lord God 
took man, and put him into the 
paradise of pleasure, to dress 
it, and to keep it. And he 
commanded him, saying: Of 
every tree of paradise thou 
shalt eat: but of the tree of 
knowledge of good and evil, 
thou shalt not eat. For in what 
day soever thou shalt eat of it, 
thou shalt die the death. 

Q. "Which -were the chief 
blessings intended for Adam 
and Eve had they remained 
faithful to God ? 

(Gen. 2.) The Lord God had 
planted a paradise of pleasure 
from the beginning: wherein 
he i)laced man whom he had 
formed. And the Lord God 
brought forth of the ground all 
manner of trees, fair to behold, 
and pleasant to eat of: the tree 
of life also in the midst of para- 
dise : and the tree of knowledge 
of good and evil. And the 



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17 



Lord God took man, and put 
Lim into the paradise of pleas- 
ure, to dress it, and to keep it. 
And the Lord God having 
formed out of the ground all the 
beasts of the earth, and all the 
fowls of the air, brought them 
to Adam to see what he would 
call them : for whatsoever 
Adam called any living creature 
the same is its name. And 
Adam called all the beasts by 
their names, and all the fowls 
of the air, and all the cattle of 
the field. 

(Gen. L) And God said: 
Behold I have given you every 
herb bearing seed upon the 
earth, and all trees that have 
in themselves seed of their own 
kind, to be your meat: and 
to all beasts of the earth, and 
to every fowl of the air, and to 
all that move upon the earth, 
and wherein there is life, that 
they may have to feed upon. 
And it was so done. 

Q. Did Adam and Eve re- 
main faithful to G-od ? 

(Gen. 3.) Now the serpent 
was more subtle than any of 
the beasts of the earth which 
the Lord God had made. And 
he said to the woman: Why 
hath God commanded you, that 
you should not eat of every 
tree of paradise ? And the 
woman answered him, saying: 
Of the fruit of the trees that 
are in paradise we do eat : but 
of the fruit of the tree which 
is in the midst of paradise, 
God hath commanded us that 
we should not eat; and that 
2 



we should not touch it, lest 
perhaps we die. And the ser- 
pent said to the woman : No, 
3^ou shall not die the death. 
For God doth know that in 
what day soever you shall eat 
thereof, your ej^es shall be 
opened : and 3^ou shall be as 
Gods, knowing good and evil. 
And the woman saw that the 
tree was good to eat, and fair 
to the eyes, and delightful to 
behold : and she took of the 
fruit thereof, and did eat, and 
gave to her husband who did 
eat. 

Q. "What befell Adam and 
Eve on account of their sin ? 

(Gen. 3.) The eyes of them 
both were opened : and when 
they perceived themselves to 
be naked, the}^ sewed together 
fig-leaves, and made themselves 
aprons. And when they heard 
the voice of the Lord God 
walking in paradise at the 
afternoon air, Adam and his 
wife hid themselves from the 
face of the Lord God, amidst 
the trees of paradise. And the 
Lord God called Adam, and 
said to him : Where art thou ? 
And he said : I heard thy voice 
in paradise ; and I was afraid, 
because I was naked, and I hid 
myself. And he said to him : 
And who hath told thee that 
thou wast naked, bu,t that thou 
hast eaten of the tree whereof 
I commanded thee that thou 
shouldst not eat? And Adam 
said: The woman, whom thou 
gavest me to be my companion, 
gave me of the tree, and I did 



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eat. And the Lord God said 
to the woman : Why hast 
thou done this? And she an- 
swered : The serpent deceived 
me, and I did eat. And the 
Lord God said to the serpent : 
Because thou hast done this 
thing, thou art cursed among 
all cattle, and beasts of the 
earth : upon thy breast shalt 
thou go, and earth shalt thou 
eat all the days of thy life. I 
will put enmities between thee 
and the woman, and thy seed 
and her seed : she shall crush 
thy head, and thou shalt lie in 
wait for her heel. To the 
woman also he said ; I will 
multiply thy sorrows, and thy 
conceptions: in sorrow shalt 
thou bring forth children, and 
thou shalt be under thy hus- 
band's power, and he shall have 
dominion over thee. And to 
Adam he said: Because thou 
hast hearkened to the voice of 
thy wife, and has eaten of the 
tree, whereof I commanded 
thee that thou shonldst not eat, 
cursed is the earth in th}^ work ; 
with labour and toil shalt thou 
eat thereof all the days of thy 
life. Thorns and thistles shall 
it bring forth to thee ; and thou 
shalt eat the herbs of the earth. 
In the sweat of thy face shalt 
thou eat bread till thou return 
to the earth, out of which thou 
wast taken : for dust thou art, 
and into dust thou shalt re- 
turn. And the Lord God made 
for Adam and his wife, gar- 
ments of skins, and clothed 
them. And he said: Behold 
Adam is become as one of us. 



knowing good and evil : now, 
therefore, lest perhaps he put 
forth his hand, and take also 
of the tree of life, and eat, and 
live for ever. And the Lord 
God sent him out of the para- 
dise of leasure, to till the earth 
from which he was taken. 
And he cast out Adam ; and 
placed before the paradise of 
pleasure Cherubims, and a 
flaming sword, turning every 
way, to keep the way of the 
tree of life. 

(Isa. 5.) I will sing to my 
beloved the canticle of ni}^ cous- 
in concerning his vineyard. 
My beloved had a vineyard on 
a hill in a fruitful place. And 
he fenced it in, and picked the 
stones out of it, and planted it 
with the choicest wines, and 
built a tower in the midst 
thereof, and set up a wine-press 
therein : and he looked that it 
should bring forth grapes, and 
it brought forth wild grapes. 
And now, ye inhabitants of 
Jerusalem, and ye men of Juda, 
judge between me and my 
vineyard. What is there that 
I ought to do more to my vine- 
yard, that I have not done to 
it ? was it that I looked that it 
shonld bring forth grapes, and 
it hath brought forth Wild 
grapes ? And now I will shew 
you what I will do to my vine- 
yard. I will take away the 
hedge thereof, and it shall be 
wasted : I will break down the 
wall thereof, and it shall be 
trodden down. And I will 
make it desolate \ it shall not 
be pruned, and it shall not be 



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digged : but briers and thorns 
sliall come up : and I will com- 
mand the clouds to rain no rain 
upon it. For the vineyard of 
tlie Lord of hosts is the house 
of Israel : and the man of 
Juda, his pleasant plant : and I 
looked that he should do judg- 
ment, and behold iniquity : and 
do justice, and behold a cry. 

Q. What evil befell us on 
account of the disobedience 
of our first parents ? 

(Ex. 5. A. M. 2513.) Pharao 
said : The people of the land is 
numerous : you see that the 
multitude is increased: how 
much more if you give them 
rest from their works ? There- 
fore he commanded the same 
day the overseers of the works, 
and the task-masters of the 
people, saying : You shall give 
straw no more to the people to 
make brick, as before : but let 
them go and gather straw. 
And you shall lay upon them 
the task of bricks, which they 
did before, neither shall you di- 
minish any thing thereof: for 
they are idle, and therefore 
they cry, saying : Let us go 
and sacrifice to our God. Let 
them be oppressed, with works, 
and let them fulfil them : that 
they may not regard lying 
words. And the overseers of 
the works and the task-masters 
went out and said to the peo- 
ple : Thus saith Pharao, I al- 
low you no straw : go, and 
gather it where you can find 
it : neither shall anything of 
your work be diminished. And 
the people was scattered 



through all the land of Egypt 
to gather straw. And the over- 
seers of the works pressed 
them, saying : Fulfil your work 
every day as before you were 
wont to do when straw was 
given you. And the}^ that 
were over the works of the 
children of Israel were scourged 
by Pharao's task-masters, say- 
ing: Why have you not 
made up the task of bricks 
both yesterday and to-day as 
before ? 

Q. TVhat other effects fol- 
lowed from, the sin of our 
first parents ? 

(Eccltus. 40.) Great labour is 
created for all men, and a heavy 
yoke is upon the children of 
Adam, from the day of their 
coming out of their mother's 
womb, until the day of their 
burial into the mother of all. 
Their thoughts, and fears of the 
heart, their imagination of 
things to come, and the day of 
their end: from him that sit- 
teth on a glorious throne, unto 
him that is humbled in earth 
and ashes : from him that 
weareth purple, and beareth 
the crown, even to him that is 
covered with rough linen : 
wrath, envy, trouble, unquiet- 
ness, and the fear of death, con- 
tinual anger, and strife, such 
things happen to all flesh, from 
man even to beast, and upon 
sinners are sevenfold more. 
Moreover, death, and blood- 
shed, strife, and sword, oppres- 
sions, famine, and affliction, and 
scourges : all these things are 
created for the wicked. 



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Q. What is the sin called \ 
-which we inherit from our \ 
first parents? ! 

(I. Tim. 2.) Ill like manner | 
women also in decent apparel : 
adorning themselves with mod- 
esty and sobriety, not with 
plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, 
or costly attire, but as it be- 
cometh women professing god- 
liness, with good works. Let 
the woman learn in silence, 
with all subjection. But I suf- 
fer not a woman to teach, nor 
to use authority over the man : 
but to be in silence. For Adam 
was first formed; then Eve. 
And Adam was not seduced ; 
but the woman being seduced, 
was in the transgression. 

Q. "Why is this sin called 
original ? 

(Rom. 5.) As by one man 
sin entered into this world, and 
b}^ sin death ; and so death 
passed upon all men, in whom 
all have sinned. For until the 
law sin was in the world ; but 
sin was not imputed, when the 
law was not. But death reigned 
from Adam unto Moses, even 
over them also who have not 
sinned after the similitude of 
the transgression of Adam, who 
is a ficTure of him who was to 
come. 

Q. Does this corruption of 
our nature remain in us 
after original sin is for- 
given ? 

(II. Cor. 12.) Lest the great- 
ness of the revelations should 
exalt me, there was given me a | 
sting of my flesh, an angel of J 



satan, to buffet me. For which 
thing thrice I besought the 
Lord, that it might depart from 
me. And he said to me : My 
grace is suflftcient for thee : for 
power is made perfect in in- 
firmity. Gladly therefore will 
I glory in my infirmities, that 
the power of Christ may dwell 
in me. 

(Rom. 7.) I am delighted 
with the law of God, according 
to the inward man : but I see 
another law in my members, 
fighting against the law of my 
mind, and captivating me in 
the law of sin, that is in my 
members. Unhappy man that 
I am, who shall deliver me from 
the body of this death? The 
grace of God, by Jesus Christ 
our Lord. Therefore, I myself, 
with the mind, serve the law of 
God; but with the flesh, the 
law of sin. 

Q. Was any one ever pre- 
served from original sin ? 

See " L. of C," p. 8, No. 5 ; p. 36, No. 26. 

(Apoc. 12.) A great sign 
appeared in heaven : A woman 
clothed with the sun, and the 
moon under her feet, and on 
her head a crown of twelve 
stars. 

(Cant. 5: Cant. 6.) Who is 
she that cometh forth as the 
morning rising, fair as the 
moon, bright as the sun, ter- 
rible as an army set in arrav ? 

(Gen. 6. A. M. 1536.) Noe 
found grace before the Lord. 
But the earth was corrupted 
before God, and was filled with 
iniquity. And when God had 



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21 



seen that the earth was cor- 
rupted (for all flesh had cor- 
rupted its way upon the earth,) 
he said to Noe : The end of all 
flesh is come before me, the 
earth is filled with iniquity 
tlirough them, and I will de- 
stroy them with the earth. 
Make thee an ark of timber 
planks : thou shalt make little 
rooms in the ark, and thou 
shalt pitch it within and with- 
out. And thus shalt thou make 
it : The length of the ark shall 
be three hundred cubits : the 
breadth of it fifty cubits, and 
the height of it thirty cubits. 
Thou shalt make a window in 
the ark, and in a cubit shalt 
thou finish the top of it : and 
the door of the ark thou shalt 
set in the side : with lower, 
middle chambers, and third sto- 
ries shalt thou make it. Behold 
I will bring the waters of a 
great flood upon the earth, to 
destroy all flesh, wherein is the 
breath of life, under heaven. 
All things that are in the earth 
shall be consumed. And I will 
establish my covenant with 
thee, and thou shalt enter into 
the ark, thou and thy sons, and 
thy wife, and the wives of thy 
sons with thee. 

(Gen. 7.) And Noe went in 
and his sons, his wife and the 
wives of his sons with him into 
the ark, because of the waters 
of the flood. And of beasts 
clean and unclean, and of fowls, 
and of everything that moveth 
upon the earth. Two and two 
went in to Noe into the ark, 
male and female, as the Lord 



had commanded Noe. And af- 
ter the seven days were passed, 
the waters of the flood over- 
flowed the earth. And the rain 
fell upon the earth forty days 
and forty nights. The water 
was fifteen cubits higher than 
the mountains which it covered. 
And all flesh was destroyed 
that moved upon the earth, 
both of fowl, and of cattle, and 
of beasts, and of all creeping 
things that creep upon the 
earth : and all men. And all 
things wherein there is the 
breath of life on the earth, died, 
and the waters prevailed upon 
the earth a hundred and fifty 
days. 

(Gen. 8.) And God remem- 
bered Noe, and all the living 
creatures, and all the cattle 
which were with him in the ark, 
and brought a wind upon the 
earth, and the waters were 
abated. And the waters were 
going and decreasing until the 
tenth month : for in the tenth 
month, the first day of the 
month, the tops of the moun- 
tains appeared. And after that 
forty days were passed, Noe, 
opening the window of the ark 
which he had made, sent forth 
a raven : which went forth 
and did not return, till the 
waters were dried up upon the 
earth. He sent forth also a 
dove after him, to see if the 
waters had now ceased upon 
the face of the earth. But she, 
not finding where her foot 
might rest, returned to him in- 
to the ark : for the waters were 
upon the whole earth : and he 



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put forth his hand, and caught 
her, and brought her into the 
ark. And having waited jet 
seven other days, he again sent 
forth the dove out of the ark. 
And she came to him in the 
evening, carrying a bough of an 
olive tree, with green leaves, in 
her mouth. Noe therefore un- 
derstood that the waters were 
ceased upon the earth. And 
he sta3'ed yet otlier seven days : 
and he sent forth the dove, 
which returned not any more 
unto him. So Noe went out, he 
and his sons : his wife, and the 
wives of his sons with him. 
And all living things, and cat- 
tle, and creeping things that 
creep upon the earth, according 
to their kinds, went out of the 
ark. 

(Gen. 9.) And God blessed 
Noe and his sons. And he said 
to them: Increase and multi- 
ply, and fill the earth. I will 
establish my covenant with 
you, and all flesh shall be no 
more destroyed with the waters 
of a flood, neither shall there 
be from henceforth a flood to 
waste the earth. And God 
said: This is the sign of the 
covenant which I give between 
me and 3^ou, and to every liv- 
ing soul that is with you, for 
perpetual generations. I will 
set my bow in the clouds, and 
it shall be the sign of a cove- 
nant between me, and between 
the earth. And when I shall 
cover the sky with clouds, my 
bow shall appear in the clouds : 
and I will remember my cove- 
nant with you, and with every 



living soul that beareth flesh : 
and there shall no more be 
waters of a flood to destroy all 
flesh. And the bow shall be in 
the clouds, and I shall see it, 
and shall remember the ever- 
lasting covenant, that was 
made between God and every 
living soul of all flesh which is 
upon the earth. And God 
said to Noe : This shall be the 
sign of the covenant which I 
have established between me 
and all flesh upon the earth. 

(Ex. 14. A. M. 2513.) When 
Moses had stretched forth his 
hand over the sea, the Lord 
took it away by a strong and 
burning wind blowing all the 
niorht, and turned it into drv 
ground : and the water was 
divided. So Mary the proph- 
etess the sister of Aaron, took 
a timbrel in her hand : and all 
the women went forth after 
her with timbrels and with 
dances: and the children of 
Israel went in through the 
midst of the sea dried up: for 
the water was as a wall on their 
right hand and on their left. 
And the Egyptians pursuing 
went in after them, and all 
Pharao's horses, his chariots 
and horsemen through the 
midst of the sea. And the 
Lord said to Moses: Stretch 
forth thy hand over the sea, 
that the waters may come 
again upon the Egyptians, upon 
their chariots and horsemen. 
And when Moses had stretched 
forth his hand towards the sea, 
it returned at the first break of 
day to the former place: and 



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as the Egyptians were fleeing 
away, the waters came upon 
them, and the Lord shut them 
up in the middle of the weaves. 
And the waters returned, and 
covered the chariots and the 
horsemen of all the army of 
Pharao, who had come into the 
sea after them, neither did 
there so much as one of them 
remain. But the children of 
Israel marched through the 
midst of the sea upon dry 
land, and the waters were to 
them as a wall on the right 
hand and on the left : and the 
Lord delivered Israel on that 
day out of the hands of the 
Egvptians. 

(Judg. 4. A. M. 2570.) The 
Lord delivered the Israelites 
up into the hands of Jaban 
king of Chanaan, who reigned 
in Asor : and he had a general 
of his army named Sisara, and 
he dwelt in Haroseth of the 
Gentiles. And there w^as at 
that time Debbora a prophetess 
the wife of Lapidoth, who 
judged the people. And she 
sent and called Barac the son 
of Abinoem out of Cedes in 
Nephtali : and she said to him : 
The Lord God of Israel hath 
commanded thee : Go, and lead 
an army to mount Thabor, and 
thou shalt take with thee ten 
thousand fighting men of the 
children of Nephtali, and of 
the children of Zabulon : and 
I will bring unto thee in the 
place of the torrent Cison, 
Sisara the general of Jabin's 
army, and his chariots, and all 
his multitude, and will deliver 



them into th}^ hand. And 
Barac said to her: If thou 
wilt come with me, I will go: 
if thou wilt not come with me, 
I will not go. She said to 
him : I will go indeed with 
thee, but at this time the vic- 
tory shall not be attributed to 
thee, because Sisara shall be 
delivered into the hand of a 
woman. Debbora therefore 
arose, and went with Barac to 
Cedes. And the Lord struck 
a terror into Sisara, and all his 
chariots, and all his multitude, 
with the edge of the sword, at 
the sight of Barac, insomuch 
that Sisara leaping down from 
off his chariot, fled away on 
foot. And Barac pursued after 
the fleeing chariots and the 
army unto Haroseth of the 
Gentiles, and all the multitude 
of the enemies was utterly de- 
stroyed. But Sisara fleeing 
came to the tent of Jahel the 
wife of Haber the Cinite, for 
there was peace betw^een Jabin 
the king of Asor, and the house 
of Haber the Cinite. And 
Jahel went forth to meet Sisara, 
and said to him : Come in to 
me, my lord, come in, fear not. 
He went in to her tent, and be- 
ing covered b}^ her with a 
cloak, said to her : Give me, I 
beseech thee, a little water, for 
I am very thirsty. She opened 
a bottle of milk, and gave him 
to drink, and covered him. 
And Sisara said to her : Stand 
before the door of the tent, and 
when any shall come and in- 
quire of thee, saying : Is there 
any man here ? thou sbalt say : 



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There is none. So Jaliel 
Haber's wife took a nail of the 
tent, and taking also a hammer : 
and going in softly, and with 
silence, she put the nail upon 
the temples of his head, and 
striking it with the hammer, 
drove it through his brain fast 
I into the ground: and so pass- 
ing from deep sleep to death, 
he fainted away and died. 
And behold Barac came pursu- 
ing after Sisara : and Jahel 
went out to meet him, and said 
to him : Come, and I will 
shew thee the man whom thou 
seekest. And when he came 
into her tent, he saw Sisara ly- 
ing dead, and the nail fastened 
in his temples. 

( Judg. 6. A. M. 2759.) Ged- 
eon said to God : If thou wilt 
save Israel by my hand, as thou 
hast said, I will put this fleece 
of wool on the floor : if there 
be dew on the fleece only, and 
it be dry on all the ground be- 
side, I shall know that by my 
hand, as thou hast said, thou 
wilt deliver Israel. And it was 
so. And rising before day 
wringing the fleece, he fllled a 
vessel with the dew. And he 
said again to God : Let not thy 
wi'ath be kindled against me if 
I try once more, seeking a sign 
in the fleece. I pray that the 
fleece only may be dry, and all 
the ground wet with dew. And 
God did that night as he had 
requested: and it was dry on 
the fleece only, and there was 
dew on all the ground. 

(Judith A. M. 3347.) Nab- 
uchodonosor king of the As- 



sja-ians, sent messengers to the 
nations. But they all with one 
mind refused, and sent them 
back empty, and rejected them 
without honour. Then king 
Nabuchodonosor being angry 
against all that land, swore by 
his throne and kingdom that he 
would reveno^e himself of all 
those countries. And he said 
that his thoughts were to bring 
all the earth under his empire. 
And when this saying pleased 
them all, Nabuchodonosor, the 
king, called Ilolofernes the gen- 
eral of his armies, and said to 
him : Go out against all the 
kingdoms of the west, and 
against them especially that de- 
spised ni}' commandment. Thy 
eye shall not spare any king- 
dom, and all the strong cities 
thou shalt bring under ray 3^oke. 
Then Holofernes went forth, he 
and all the arm}^, with the char- 
iots, and horsemen, and archers, 
who covered the face of the 
earth, like locusts. Then the 
children of Israel, who dwelt in 
the land of Juda, hearing these 
things, were exceedingl}^ afraid 
of him. Dread and horror 
seized upon their minds, lest he 
should do the same to Jerusa- 
lem and to the temple of the 
Lord, that he had done to other 
cities and their temples. And 
they sent into all Samaria round 
about, as far as Jericho, and 
seized upon all the tops of the 
mountains : and they com- 
passed their towns with walls, 
and gathered together corn for 
provision for war. And it was 
told Holofernes the general of 



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25 



the array of the Assyrians, that 
the children of Israel prepared 
themselves to resist, and had 
shut up tlie ways of the moun- 
tains. And he was transported 
with exceeding great fury and 
indignation. But Holofernes 
on the next day gave orders to 
his army, to go up against 
Bethulia. Now Holofernes, in 
going round about, found that 
the fountain w^hich supplied 
them with water, ran through 
an aqueduct without the city on 
the south side : and he com- 
manded their aqueduct to be 
cut off. Nevertheless there 
were springs not far from the 
walls, out of which they were 
seen secretly to draw water, to 
refresh themselves a little 
rather than to drink their fill. 
Then he placed all round about 
a hundred men at every spring. 
And when they had kept this 
watch for full twenty days, the 
cisterns, and the reserve of 
waters failed among all the in- 
habitants of Bethulia, so that 
there was not within the city, 
enough to satisfy them, no not 
for one day, for water w^as daily 
given out to the people by 
measure. Then all the men 
and women, young men, and 
children, gathering themselves 
together to Ozias, all together 
with one voice, said : God be 
judge between us and thee, for 
thou hast done evil against us, 
in that thou wouldst not speak 
peaceabl}'' with the Assyrians, 
and for this cause God hath sold 
us into their hands. And now 
assemble 3^e all that are in the 



city, that we may of our own 
accord yield ourselves all up to 
the people of Holofernes. Ozias 
rising up all in tears, said : Be 
of good courage, my brethren, 
and let us w^ait these five days 
for mercy from the Lord. For 
perhaps he will put a stop to 
his indignation, and will give 
glory to his ow^n name. But if 
after five days be past there come 
no aid, we will do the things 
which you have spoken. Now 
Judith was a widow now three 
3^ears and six months. And she 
made herself a private chamber 
in the upper part of her house, 
in which she abode shut up with 
her maids, and she wore hair- 
cloth upon her loins, and fasted 
all the daj's of her life, except 
the sabbaths, and new-moons, 
and the feasts of the house of 
Israel. And she was exceed- 
in gl3'' beautiful, and her hus- 
band left her great riches, and 
very many servants, and large 
possessions of herds of oxen, 
and flocks of sheep. And she 
was greatly renowned among 
all, because she feared the Lord 
very much, neither w^as there 
any one that spoke an ill word 
of her. Now it came to pass, 
when Judith had heard these 
words she went into her oratory: 
and putting on hair-cloth, laid 
ashes on her head : and falling 
down prostrate before the Lord, 
she cried to the Lord. And it 
came to pass, when she had 
ceased to cry to the Lord, that 
she rose from the place wherein 
she lay prostrate before the 
Lord. And she called her maid. 



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and going down into her bouse 
she took off her hair-cloth, and 
put away the garments of her 
widowhood, and she washed her 
body, and anointed herself with 
the best ointment, and plaited 
the hair of her head, and put a 
bonnet upon her head, and 
clothed herself with the gar- 
ments of her gladness, and put 
sandals on her feet, and took 
her bracelets, and lilies, and 
earlets, and rings, and adorned 
herself with all her ornaments. 
And the Lord also gave her 
more beauty : because all this 
dressing up did not proceed 
from sensuality, but from vir- 
tue : and therefore the Lord in- 
creased this her beauty, so that 
she appeared to all men's eyes 
incomparably lovely. And she 
gave to her maid a bottle of 
wine to carry, and a vessel of 
oil, and parched corn, and dry 
figs, and bread and cheese, and 
went out. But Judith praying 
to the Lord, passed through the 
gates, she and her maid. And 
it came to pass, when she went 
down the hill, about break of 
day, that the watchmen of the 
Assyrians met her, and stopped 
her, saying : Whence comest 
thou ? or whither goest thou ? 
And she answered : I am a 
daughter of the Hebrews, and 
I am fled from them, because I 
knew they would be made a 
prey to you, because they de- 
spised you, and would not of 
their own accord yield them- 
selves, that they might find 
mercy in your sight. And they 
brought her to the tent of Hol- 



ofernes, telling him of her. And 
when she was come into his 
presence, forthwith Holofernes 
was caught by his eyes. And 
Judith said to him : Receive 
the words of thy handmaid, for 
if thou wilt follow the words of 
thy handmaid, the Lord will do 
with thee a perfect thing. For 
it is certain that our God is so 
offended with sins, that he hath 
sent word by his prophets to 
the people, that he will deliver 
them np for their sins. And 
because the children of Israel 
know they have offended their 
God, thy dread is upon them. 
And because God is angry with 
them, I am sent to tell these 
very things to thee. And all 
these words pleased Holofernes, 
and his servants, and they ad- 
mired her wisdom, and they 
said one to another : There is 
not such another woman upon 
earth in look, in beauty, and in 
sense of words. Then he 
ordered that she should go in 
where his treasures were laid 
up, and bade her tarry there, 
and he appointed what should 
be given her from his own table. 
Judith answered him and said: 
Now I can not eat of these 
tliino;s which thou commandest 
to be given me, lest sin come 
upon me : but I will eat of the 
things which I have brought. 
Holofernes said to her : If these 
things which thou hast brought 
with thee, fail thee, what shall 
we do for thee? And Judith 
said : As thy soul liveth, my 
Lord, thy handmaid shall not 
spend all these things till God 



CATECHISM. 



27 



do by my hand that which I 
have purposed. And his serv- 
ants brought her into the tent 
which he had commanded. Now 
when she was going in, she de- 
sired that she might have 
liberty to go out at night and 
before day to praj^er, and to 
beseech the Lord. And he com- 
manded his chamberlains, that 
she might go out and in, to 
adore her God as she pleased, 
for three days. And it came 
to pass on the fourth da}^, that 
Holofernes made a supper for 
his servants, and said to Yagao 
his eunuch : Go, and persuade 
that Hebrew woman, to consent 
of her own accord to dwell with 
me. And Judith answered him : 
Who am I, that I should gain- 
say my lord? All that shall 
be good and best before his eyes, 
I will do. And whatsoever 
shall please him, that shall be 
best to me all the days of my 
life. And she arose and dressed 
herself out with her garments, 
and going in she stood before 
his face. And the heart of 
Holofernes was smitten, and 
when it was grown late, his 
servants made haste to their 
lodgings, and Yagao shut the 
chamber-doors, and went his 
way. And they were all over- 
charged with wine. And Judith 
was alone in the chamber. But 
Holofernes lay on his bed, fast 
asleep, being exceedingly drunk. 
And Judith spoke to her maid 
to stand without before the 
chamber, and to watch : and 
Judith stood before the bed 
praying with tears, and the 



motion of her lips in silence. 
Then she went to the pillar that 
was at his bed's head, and loosed 
his sword that hung tied upon 
it. And when she had drawn it 
out, she took him by the hair of 
his head, and said : Strengthen 
me, O Lord God, at this hour. 
And she struck twice upon his 
neck, and cut off his head, and 
took off his canopy from the 
pillars, and rolled away his 
headless body. And after a 
while she went out, and deliv- 
ered the head of Holofernes to 
her maid, and bade her put it 
into her wallet. And they two 
went out according to their 
custom, as it were to prayer, 
and they passed the camp, and 
having compassed the valley, 
they came to the gate of the 
city. And all ran to meet her 
from the least to the greatest : 
for they now had no hopes that 
she would come. And when 
all had held their peace, Judith 
said: Praise ye the Lord our 
God, who hath not forsaken 
them that hope in him. And 
that thou mayst find that it is 
so, behold the head of Holofer- 
nes, who in the contempt of his 
pride despised the God of 
Israel : and threatened thee 
with death. But after they had 
recovered their spirits they fell 
down at her feet, and rever- 
enced her, and said : Blessed 
art thou by thy God in every 
tabernacle of Jacob, for in every 
nation which shall hear thy 
name, the God of Israel shall 
be magnified on occasion of 
thee. And immediately at 



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break of day, they hniig up the 
head of Holoferiies upon the 
walls, and every man took his 
arms, and they went out with 
a great noise and shouting. 
And the watchmen seeing this, 
ran to the tent of Holofernes. 
But when with harkening, he 
perceived no motion of one 
lying, he came near to the 
curtain, and lifting it up, and 
seeing the body of Holofernes, 
lying upon the ground, without 
the head, weltering in his blood, 
be cried out with a loud voice, 
with weeping, and rent his 
garments. And he went into 
the tent of Judith, and not find- 
ing her, he run out to the peo- 
ple, and said : One Hebrew 
woman hath made confusion in 
the house of king Nabucho- 
donosor : for behold Holofernes 
lietli upon the ground, and his 
head is not upon him. And 
when all the army heard that 
Holofernes was beheaded, cour- 



age and counsel fled from them, 
and being seized with trembling 
and fear they thought only to 
save themselves by flight : so 
the children of Israel seeing 
them fleeing, followed after 
them. And they went down 
sounding with trumpets and 
shouting after them. And 
thirty days were scarce suflfi- 
cient for the people of Israel to 
gather up the spoils of the As- 
syrians. And Joachim the 
high priest came from Jerusa- 
lem to Bethulia with all his 
ancients to see Judith. And 
when she was come out to him, 
they all blessed her with one 
voice, saying : Thou art the 
glory of Jerusalem, thou art 
the joy of Israel, thou art the 
honour of our people. And she 
abode in her husband's house a 
hundred and five 3^ ears, and 
made her handmaid free, and 
she died, and was buried with 
her husband in Bethulia. 



LESSON SIXTH. 



ON SIN AND ITS KINDS. 



Q. Is original sin the only 
kind of sin ? 

(Gal. 5.) Now the works 
of the flesh are manifest, which 
are fornication, uncleanness, 
immodest}^ luxury, idolatry, 
witchcrafts, enmities, conten- 
tions, emulations, wraths, quar- 
rels, dissensions, sects, envies, 
murders, drunkenness, revel- 
lings, and such like. Of the 



which I foretell you, as I have 
foretold to you, that they who 
do such things shall not obtain 
the kingdom of God. 

Q. "What is actual sin ? 

See " L. of C.,'' p. 59, No. 17. 

(I. John 2.) Love not the 
world, nor the things which are 
in the world. If an}'- man love 
the world, the charity of the 



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Father is not in him. For all 
that is in the world, is the con- 
cupiscence of the flesh, and the 
concupiscence of the eyes, and 
the pride of life, which is not 
of the Father, but is of the 
world. And the world passeth 
awa}^, and the concupiscence 
thereof: but he that doth the 
will of God, abideth for ever. 

Q. How many kinds of ac- 
tual sin are there ? 

(I. Cor. 3.) Other founda- 
tion no man can lay, but that 
which is laid ; which is Christ 
Jesus. Now if an}^ man build 
upon this foundation, gold, sil- 
ver, precious stones, wood, ha}^ 
stubble : every man's work 
shall be manifest ; for the da}' 
of the Lord shall declare it, be- 
cause it shall be revealed in 
lire ; and the fire shall try ever}^ 
man's work, of what sort it is. 
If any man's work abide, which 
he hath built thereupon, he 
shall receive a reward. If any 
man's work burn, he shall suf- 
fer loss ; but he himself shall 
be saved, yet so as by fire. 
Know you not, that you are 
the temple of God, and that the 
Spirit of God dwelleth in you ? 
But if any man violate the tem- 
ple of God, him shall God de- 
stroy. For the temple of God 
is holy, which you are. 

Q. What is mortal sin ? 

See "L. of C.."p.68, No. 37. 

(James 1.) Every man is 
tempted by his own concupi- 
scence, being drawn away and 
allured. Then when concupi- 
scence hath conceived, it bring- 



eth forth sin. But sin, when it 
is completed, begetteth death. 

Q. "Why is this sin called 
mortal ? 

See "L. of C," p. 84, No. 13. 

(I. John 5.) All iniquity is 
sin. And there is a sin unto 
death. 

Q. How many things are 
necessary to make a sin 
mortal ? 

(Prov. 2.) They leave the 
right way, and walk by dark 
ways : who are glad when they 
have done evil, and rejoice in 
most wicked things : whose 
ways are perverse, and their 
steps infamous. 

Q. What is venial sin ? 

See "L. of C.,'' p. 109, No. 4. 

(Prov. 24.) A just man shall 
fall seven times and shall rise 
again : but the wicked shall fall 
down into evil. 

(Eccltus. 19.) And he that 
contemneth small things, shall 
fall hy little and little. 

Q. Which are the effects of 

venial sin? 
See"L.of C.,"p. no, No. 2; p. Ill, No. 5. 

(Eccltus. 19.) He that con- 
temneth small things, shall fall 
by little and little. 

Q. Which are the chief sour- 
ces of sin ? 

(Gen. 11. A. M. 1800.) Now 
the earth was of one tongue, 
and of the same speech. And 
when the}^ removed from the 
east, they found a plain in the 
land of Sennaar, and dwelt in 



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it. And each one said to bis 
neighbour : Come, let us make 
brick, and bake them with fire. 
And they had brick instead of 
stones, and slime instead of 
mortar. And they said : Come, 
let ns make a city and a tower, 
the top whereof may reach to 
heaven : and let us make our 
name famous before we be scat- 
tered abroad into all lands. And 
tiie Lord came down to see the 
city and the tower, which the 
children of Adam were build- 
ing. And he said : Beliold, it 
is one people, and all have one 
tongue : and they have begun 
to do this, neither will they 
leave off from their designs, till 
they accomplish them in deed. 
Come ye, therefore, let us go 
down, and there confound their 
tongue, that they may not un- 
derstand one another's speech. 
And so the Lord scattered them 
from that place into all lands, 
and they ceased to build the 
city. And therefore the name 
thereof was called Babel, be- 
cause there the language of the 
whole earth was confounded : 
and from thence the Lord scat- 
tered them abroad upon the 
face of all countries. 

(Eccltus. 6.) A covetous 
man shall not be satisfied with 
money ; and he that loveth 
riches shall reap no fruit from 
them : so this also is vanit3\ 
Where there are great riches, 
therearealso many to eat them. 
And what doth it profit the 
owner, but that he seeth the 
riches with his eyes ? Sleep is 
sweet to a labouring man. 



whether he eat little or much : 
but the fulness of the rich will 
not suffer him to sleep. There 
is also another grievous evil, 
which I have seen under the 
sun : riches kept to the hurt of 
the owner. For they are lost 
with very great affliction : he 
hath begotten a son, who shall 
be in extremit}'' of want. As 
he came forth naked from his 
mother's womb, so shall he re- 
turn, and shall take nothing 
away with him of his labour. 
A most deplorable evil : ns he 
came, so shall he return. What 
then doth it profit him that he 
hath laboured for the wind ? 
All the days of his life he eat- 
eth in darkness, and in mnny 
cares, and in misery, and sor- 
row. This therefore hath seemed 
good to me, that a man should 
eat and drink, and enjoy the 
fruit of his labour, wherewith 
he hath laboured under the sun, 
all the days of bis life, which 
God hath given him : and this 
is his portion. And everj^ man 
to whom God bath given riches, 
and substance, and hath given 
him power to eat thereof, and 
to enjo}^ his portion, and to re- 
joice of his labour: this is the 
gift of God. 

(Prov. 7.) She entangled 
him with many words, and drew 
him away with the flattery of 
her lips. Immediately be fol- 
lowetb her as an ox led to be a 
victim, and as a lamb playing 
the wanton, and not knowing 
that be is drawn like a fool to 
bonds. Till the arrow pierce 
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CATECHISM. 



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make haste to the snare, and 
knoweth not that his life is in 
danger. 

(Gen. 4. A. M. 2.) Abel 
was a shepherd, and Cain a 
husbandman. And it came to 
pass after many days, that Cain 
offered, of the- fruits of the 
earth, gifts to the Lord. Abel 
also offered of the firstlings of 
his flock, and of their fat : and 
the Lord had respect to Abel, 
and to his offerings. But to 
Cain and his offerings he had 
no respect : and Cain was ex- 
ceedingly angry, and his coun- 
tenance fell. And the Lord 
said to him : Why art thou 
angry? and why is thy counte- 
nance fallen ? If thou do well, 
shalt thou not receive ? but if 
ill, shall not sin forthwith be 
present at the door? but the 
lust thereof shall be under thee, 
and thou shalt have dominion 
over it. And Cain said to Abel 
his brother : Let us go forth 
abroad. And when they were 
in the field, Cain rose up against 
his brother Abel, and slew him. 
And the Lord said to Cain : 
Where is thy brother Abel? 
And he answered, I know not : 
am I my brother's keeper ? 
And he said to him : What 
hast thou done? the voice of 
thy brother's blood crieth to 
me from the earth. Now, there- 
fore, cursed shalt thou be upon 
the earth, which hath opened 
her mouth and received the 
blood of thy brother at th}^ 
hand. 

(Gen. 9. A. M. 1656.) Now 
the sons of Noe who came out 



of the ark, were Sem, Cham, 
and Japheth : and Cham is the 
father of Chanaan. These three 
are the sons of Noe: and from 
these was all mankind spread 
over the whole earth. And 
Noe, a husbandman began to 
till the ground, and p hinted a 
vineyard. And drinking of the 
wine was made drunk, and was 
uncovered in his tent. Which 
when Cham the father of Cha- 
naan had seen, to wit, that his 
father's nakedness was uncov- 
ered, he told it to his two breth- 
ren without. But Sem and 
Japheth put a cloak upon their 
shoulders, and going backward, 
covered the nakedness of their 
father : and their faces were 
turned awa}^, and they saw not 
tlieir father's nakedness. And 
Noe awaking from the wine, 
when he had learned what his 
younger son had done to him. 
He said: Cursed be Chanaan, 
a servant of servants shall he 
be unto his brethren. 

(Gen. 37. A. M. 2276.) Jo- 
seph, when he was sixteen ^^ears 
old, was feeding the flock with 
his brethren, being hut a boy : 
and he was with the sons of 
Bala and of Zelpha his father's 
wives : and he accused his 
brethren to his father of a most 
wicked crime. Now Israel loved 
Joseph above all his sons, be- 
cause he had him in his old age : 
and he made him a coat of di- 
vers colours. And his brethren 
seeing that he was loved by his 
father, more than all his sons, 
hated him, and could not speak 
peaceabl}' to him. Now it fell 



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out also that he told his breth- 
ren a dream, that he had 
dreamed : which occasioned 
them to hate him the more. 
And he said to them : Hear my 
dream which I dreamed. I 
thought we were binding 
sheaves in the field; and my 
sheaf arose as it were, and 
stood, and your sheaves stand- 
ing about, bowed down before 
my sheaf. His brethren an- 
swered : Shalt thou be our 
king ? or shall we be subject to 
thy dominion ? Therefore this 
matter of his dreams and words 
ministered nourishment to their 
envy and hatred. And when 
his brethren abode in Sichem, 
feeding their father's flocks, 
Israel said to him : Thy 
brethren feed the sheep in 
Sichem : come, I will send 
thee to them. And w^hen 
he answered : I am ready : he 
said to him : Go, and see if all 
things be well with thy breth- 
ren, and the cattle : and bring 
me word again what is doing. 
So being sent from the vale of 
Hebron, he came to Sichem : 
and when they saw him afar 
off, before he came nigh them, 
they thought to kill him. And 
said one to another: Behold 
the dreamer cometh. Come, let 
us kill him, and cast him into 
some old pit : and we will say : 
Some evil beast hath devoured 
him : and then it shall appear 
what his dreams avail him : 
and Euben hearing this, en- 
deavoured to deliver him out 
of their hands, and said : Do 
not take away his life, nor shed 



his blood : but cast him into 
this pit, that is in the wilder- 
ness, and keep your hands 
harmless ; now he said this, 
being desirous to deliver him 
out of their hands and to re- 
store him to his father. And 
as soon as he came to his breth- 
ren, they forthwith stript him 
of his outside coat, that was of 
divers colours : and cast him 
into an old pit, where there was 
no water. And Juda said to 
his brethren : what will it profit 
us to kill our brother, and con- 
ceal his blood? It is better 
that he be sold to the Ismael- 
ites, and that our hands be not 
defiled : for he is our brother 
and our flesh. His brethren 
agreed to his words. And when 
the Madianite merchants passed 
by, they drew him out of the 
pit, and sold him to the Ismael- 
ites,for twenty pieces of silver : 
and they led him into Egypt. 
And they took his coat, and 
dipped it in^the blood of a kid, 
which they had killed : send- 
ing some to carry it to their 
father, and to say : This we 
have found : see whether it be 
thy son's coat, or not. And 
the father acknowledging it, 
said: It is my son's coat, an 
evil wild beast hath eaten liim, 
a beast hath devoured Joseph. 
And tearing his garments, lie 
put on sackcloth, mourning for 
his son a long time. 

(Num. 21. A. M. 2253.) Now 
the people began- to be weary 
of their journey and labour : 
and speaking against God and 
Moses, they said : Why didst 



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thou bring us out of Egypt, to 
die in the wilderness ? There 
is no bread, nor have we any 
waters : our soul now loatheth 



this \Qvy light food. Where- 
fore the Lord sent among the 
people fiery serpents, which bit 
them and killed many of them. 



LESSON SEVENTH. 



ON THE INCARNATION AND REDEMPTION. 



Q. Did God abandon man 
after he fell into sin ? 

See "L. of C," p. 89, No. 28. 

(Gen. 3. A. M. L) The Lord 
God said to the serpent : Be- 
cause thou hast done this thing, 
thou art cursed among all cat- 
tle, and beasts of the earth : 
upon thy breast shalt thou go, 
and earth shalt thou eat all the 
days of thy life. I will put en- 
mities between thee and the 
woman, and thy seed and her 
seed : she shall crush thy head, 
and thou shalt lie in wait for 
her heel. 

(Gen. 50. A. M. 2369.) Jo- 
seph returned into Egypt with 
his brethren, and all that were 
in his company, after he had 
buried his father. Now he be- 
ing dead, his brethren were 
afraid, and talked one with an- 
other : Lest perhaps he should 
remember the wrong he suf- 
fered, and requite us all the 
evil that we did to him. And 
they sent a message to him, 
saying: Thy father command- 
ed us before he died, that we 
should say thus much to thee 
from him : I beseech thee to for- 
get the wickedness of thy 
brethren, and the sin and mal- 
3 



ice they practised against thee : 
we also pray thee, to forgive 
the servants of the God of thy 
father this wickedness. And 
when Joseph heard this, he 
wept. And his brethren came 
to him : and worshipping pros- 
trate on the ground they said : 
We are thy servants. And he 
answered them : Fear not : can 
we resist the will of God ? You 
thought evil against me : but 
God turned it into good, that 
he might exalt me, as at present 
you see, and might save many 
people. Fear not : I will feed 
you and your children. And he 
comforted them, and spoke 
gently and mildly. 

(Ex. 2. A.M. 2433.) There 
went a man of the house of 
Levi ; and took a wife of his own 
kindred. And she bore a son ; 
and seeing him a goodly cMld^ 
hid him three months. And 
when she could hide him no 
longer, she took a basket made 
of bulrushes, and daubed it 
with slime and pitch : and put 
the little babe therein, and laid 
him in the sedges b}" the river's 
brink, his sister standing afar 
oft*, and taking notice what 
would be done. And behold 



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the daughter of Pharao came 
down to wash herself in the 
river : and her maids walked b}^ 
the river's brink. And when 
she saw the basket in the 
sedges, she sent one of her 
maids for it : and when it was 
brought, she opened it and see- 
ing within it an infant crying, 
having compassion on it she 
said : This is one of the babes of 
the Hebrews. And the child's 
sister said to her : Shall I go 
and call to thee a Hebrew w^om- 
an, to nurse the babe? She 
answered : Go. The maid 
went and called her mother. 
And Pharao's daughter said to 
her : Take this child and nurse 
him for me : I will give thee 
thy wages. The woman took, 
and nursed the child : and when 
he was grown up, she delivered 
him to Pharao's daughter. And 
she adopted him for a son, and 
called him Moses, saying : Be- 
cause I took him out of the 
water. 

(I. Kings 25. A. M. 2947.) 
Now the name of the man was 
Nabal : and the name of his wife 
was Abigail. And when David 
heard in the wilderness, that 
Nabal was shearing his sheep, 
he sent ten young men, and 
said to them : Go up to Car- 
mel, and go to Nabal, and 
salute him in my name with 
peace. And when David's 
servants came, they spoke to 
Nabal all these words in David's 
name : and then held their 
peace. But Nabal answering 
the servants of David, said : 
Who is David ? and what is the 



son of Isai ? servants are multi- 
plied now a days who flee from 
their masters. So the servants 
of David w^ent back their way, 
and returning came and told 
him all the words that he said. 
Then David said to his young 
men : Let every man gird on 
his sw^ord. And they girded 
on every man his sword. And 
David also girded on his sword : 
and there followed David about 
four hundred men : and two 
hundred remained with the 
baggage. But one of the serv- 
ants told Abigail the wife of 
Nabal, saying: Behold David 
sent messengers out of the 
wilderness, to salute our mas- 
ter : and he rejected them. 
These men were very good to 
us, and gave us no trouble : 
neither did we ever lose any 
thing all the time that we con- 
versed with them in the desert. 
They were a wall unto us both 
by night and day, all the while 
we were with them keeping the 
sheep. Wherefore consider, and 
think what thou hast to do : for 
evil is determined against th}'- 
husband, and against thy house. 
Then Abigail made haste and 
coming down to the foot of the 
mountain, David and his men 
came down over-against her, 
and she met them. And she 
fell at his feet, and said : Upon 
me let this iniquity be, my 
Lord : let thy handmaid speak, 
I beseech, in thy ears : and hear 
the words of thy servant. This 
shall not be an occasion of grief 
to thee, and a scruple of heart 
to my lord, that thou hast shed 



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innocent blood, or hast revenged 
th3^self: and when the Lord 
shall have done well by my lord, 
thou shalt remember thy hand- 
maid. And David said to Abi- 
gail : Blessed be the Lord the 
God of Israel, who sent thee 
this day to meet me, and blessed 
be thy speech : and blessed be 
thou, who hast kept me to-day, 
from coming to blood, and re- 
venging me with my own hand. 

Q. Who is the Redeemer ? 

See "L. of C," p. 70, No. 1. 

(Apoc. 19.) I saw heaven 
opened, and behold a white 
horse ; and he that sat upon him 
was called faithful and true, 
and with justice doth he judge 
and light. And his eyes were 
as a flame of fire, and on his 
head were many diadems, and 
he had a name written, which 
no man knoweth but himself. 
And he was clothed with a gar- 
ment sprinkled with blood ; and 
his name is called. The Word 
of God. And the armies that 
are in heaven followed him on 
white horses, clothed in fine 
linen, wliite and clean. And 
out of his mouth proceedeth a 
sharp two-edged sword ; that 
with it he may strike the na- 
tions. And he shall rule them 
with a rod of iron ; and he 
treadeth the wine-press of the 
fierceness of the wrath of God 
the Almighty. And he hath on 
his garment, and on his thigh 
written : Kinoj of Kinofs, and 
Lord of Lords. And I saw an 
Angel standing in the sun, and 
he cried with a loud voice, say- 



ing to all the birds that did fly 
through the midst of heaven : 
Come, gather yourselves to- 
gether to the great supper of 
God : that you may eat the 
flesh of kings and the flesh 
of tribunes, and the flesh of 
mighty men, and the flesh of 
horses, and of them that sit on 
them, and the flesh of all free- 
men and bondmen, and of little 
and of great. And I saw the 
beast, and the kings of the 
earth, and their armies gathered 
together to make war with him 
that sat upon the horse, and 
with his army. And the beast 
was taken, and with him the 
false prophet, who wrought 
signs before him, wherewith he 
seduced them who received the 
character of the beast, and who 
adored his image. These two 
were cast alive into the pool of 
fire, burning with brimstone. 
And the rest were slain by the 
sword of him that sitteth upon 
the horse, which proceedeth out 
of his mouth ; and all the birds 
were filled with their flesh. 

(Gen. 42-45. A. M. 2296.) 
Jacob hearing that food was 
sold in Egypt, said to his sons : 
Go ye down, and buy us neces- 
saries, that we may live, and 
not be consumed with want. So 
the ten brethren of Joseph went 
down, to buy corn in Egj^pt : 
whilst Benjamin was kept at 
home by Jacob. Now Joseph 
was governor in the land of 
Egypt, and corn was sold b}^ his 
direction to the people. And 
when his brethren had bowed 
down to him, and he knew 



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them, he spoke as it were to 
strangers somewhat roughly, 
askmg them ; Whence came 
3^ou? They answered: From 
the land of Chanaan, to buy 
necessaries of life. And though 
he knew his brethren, he was 
not known by them. He saith : 
This is it that I say : You ai-e 
spies. If you be peaceable 
men, let one of your brethren 
be bound in prison : and go ye 
your ways and csirvy the corn 
that you have bought, unto 
your houses. And bring your 
youngest brother to me, that I 
may find your words to be 
true, and you may not die. 
They did as he had said. And 
they talked one to another : 
We deserve to suffer these 
things, because we have sinned 
against our brother, seeing the 
anguish of his soul, when he 
besought us, and we would not 
hear : therefore is this affliction 
come upon us. And they knew 
not that Joseph understood, be- 
cause he spoke to them by an 
Interpreter. And he turned 
himself away a little while, and 
wept : and returning he spoke 
to them. And taking Simeon, 
and binding him in their pres- 
ence, he commanded his serv- 
ants to fill their sacks with 
wheat, and to put every man's 
money again in their sacks, 
and to give them besides pro- 
visions for the way : and thev 
did so. And they came to 
Jacob their father in the land 
of Chanaan, and they told him 
all things that had befallen 
them. When they had told 



this, they poured out their corn, 
and every man found his mon- 
ey tied in the mouth of his 
sack : and all being astonished 
together, their father Jacob 
said : My son shall not go 
down with you : his brother is 
dead, and he is left alone : if 
any mischief befall him in the 
land to which you go, 3^ou will 
bring down my gray hairs with 
sorrow to hell. In the mean- 
time the famine was heavy upon 
all the land. And Juda said 
to his father : Send the boy 
with me, that we may set for- 
ward, and may live : lest both 
we and our children perish. 
Then Israel said to them : If it 
must needs be so, do what you 
will : take of the best fruits of 
the land in your vessels, and 
carry down presents to the 
man. So the men took the 
presents, and double money, 
and Benjamin : and went down 
into Egypt, and stood before 
Joseph. And Joseph com- 
manded the steward of his 
house, saying : Fill their sacks 
with corn, as much as they can 
hold : and put the money of 
exery one in the top of his 
sack. And in the mouth of the 
younger's sack put my silver 
cup, and the price which he gave 
for the wheat. And it was so 
done. And when they were 
now departed out of the city, 
and had gone forward a little 
way ; Joseph sending for the 
steward of his house, said : 
Arise, and pursue after the men: 
and when thou hast overtaken 
them, say to them : Why have 



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37 



you returned evil for good ? 
The cup which you have stolen, 
is that in which my lord drink- 
eth, and in which he is wont to 
divine ; 3^ou have done a very 
evil thing. He did as he had 
commanded him. And having 
overtaken them, he spoke to 
them the same words. Which 
when he had searched, begin- 
ing at the eldest and ending at 
the 3^oungest, he found tlie cup 
in Benjamin's sack. And Juda 
at the head of his brethren went 
in to Joseph (for he was not 
yet gone out of the place) and 
they altogether fell down be- 
fore him on the ground. And 
Juda said to him: What shall 
we answer my lord ? or what 
shall we say, or be able justly 
to allege? God hath found 
out the iniquity of thy serv- 
ants ; behold, we are all bond- 
men to my lord, both we, and 
he with whom the cup was 
found. Joseph answered : God 
forbid that I should do so : he 
that stole the cup, he shall be 
my bondman : and go you awa}^ 
free to your father. Then Juda 
coming nearer, said boldly : I 
thy servant will stay instead of 
the boy in the service of my 
lord, and let the boy go up with 
his brethren. For I cannot re- 
turn to my father without the 
boy, lest I be a witness of the 
calamity that will oppress my 
father. Joseph could no longer 
refrain himself before many 
that stood by : whereupon he 
commanded that all should go 
out, and no stranger be present 
at their knowing one another. 



And he lifted up his voice with 
weeping, whicli the Egyptians 
and all the house of Pharao 
heard. And lie said to his 
brethren ; I am Joseph : is my 
father yet living? His breth- 
ren could not answer him, be- 
ing struck with exceeding great 
fear. And he said mildly to 
them : Come nearer to me. 
And when they were come near 
him, he said: I am Joseph, 
your brother, whom you sold 
into Egypt. And Joseph kissed 
all his brethren, and wept upon 
every one of them : after which 
they were emboldened to speak 
to him. And they went up out 
of Egypt, and came into the 
land of Chanaan to their father 
Jacob. And they told him, 
saying : Joseph thy son is liv- 
ing : and he is ruler in all the 
land of Egypt. Which when 
Jacob heard, he awaked as it 
were out of a deep sleep. And 
he said : It is enough for me, 
if Joseph my son be yet living : 
I will go and see him before I 
die. 

(II. Kings 24. A. M. 2987.) 
When the angel of the Lord had 
stretched out his hand over Je- 
rusalem to destroy it, the Lord 
had pity on the affliction, and 
said to the angel that slew the 
people : It is enough : now hold 
thy hand. And David said to 
the Lord, when he saw the an- 
gel striking the people : It is I, I 
am he that have sinned, I have 
done wicke<ily : these that are 
the sheep, what have they done? 
let thy hand, I beseech thee, be 
turned against me, and against 



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my father's house. And Gad 
came to David that day, and 
said : Go up, and build an altar 
to the Lord in the thrashing floor 
of Areuna the Jebusite. And 
David went up according to the 
word of Gad which the Lord 
had commanded him. And 
Areuna said to David : Let my 
lord the king take, and otfer, as 
it seemeth good to him : thou 
hast here oxen for a holocaust, 
and the wain, and the yokes of 
the oxen for wood. All these 
things Areuna as a king gave 

to the kins: : and Areuna said to 



the king : The Lord thy God 
receive thy vow. And the king 
answered him, and said : Na}^, 
but I will buy it of thee at a 
])rice, and I will not offer to the 
Lord m}^ God holocausts free- 
cost. So David bought the 
floor, and the oxen, for fifty 
sides of silver : and David built 
there an altar to the Lord, and 
oflfered holocausts and peace- 
oflerings : and the Lord became 
merciful to the land, and the 
plague was staj^ed from Israel. 

Q. What do you believe of 
Jesus Christ ? 

{See "L. of C.,"p. 35, No. 25. 

(Gen. 25. A. M. 218.3.) Abra- 
ham gave all his possessions to 
Isaac. And to the children of 
the concubines he gave gifts, and 
separated them from Isaac his 
son, while he 3"et lived, to the 
east countrj^ 

(Gen, 28. A. M. 2252.) Jacob 
being departed from Bersabee, 
vrent on to Haran. And when 
he was come to a certain place, 



and would rest in it after sunset, 
he took of the stones that lay 
there, and putting under his 
head, slept in the same phice. 
And he saw in his sleep a ladder 
standing upon the earth, and the 
top thereof touching heaven : 
the angels also of God ascend- 
ing and descending by it. And 
the Lord leaning upon the lad- 
der, saying to him : I am the 
Lord God of Abraham thy 
father, and the God of Isaac ; 
The land, w^herein thou sleepest, 
I w^ill give to thee and to thy 
seed. And thy seed shall be as 
the dust of the earth: thou 
shalt spread abroad to the west, 
and to the east, and to the 
north, and to the south : and in 
thee and thy seed all the tribes 
of the earth shall be blessed. 
And I will be thy keeper 
whithersoever thou goest, and 
will bring thee back into this 
land : neither will I leave thee, 
till I shall have accomplished all 
that I have said. 

(IIL King 6. A. M. 3000.) 
Solomon made in the oracle 
two cherubims of olive-tree, of 
ten cubits in height. One wing 
of the cherub was five cubits, 
and the other wing of the cherub 
w\as five cubits : that is, in 
all ten cubits, from the ex- 
tremity of one wing to the ex- 
tremity of the other wing. The 
second cherub also was ten cu- 
bits : and the measure, and the 
work was the same in both tlie 
cherubims : that is to say, one 
cherub was ten cubits high, and 
in like manner the other cherub. 
An4 he set tlie cherubims in the 



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midst of the inner temple : and 
the cherubims stretched forth 
their wings, and the wing of 
the one touched one wall, and 
the wing of the other cherub 
touched the other wall : and the 
other wings in the midst of the 
temple touched one another. 

Q. "Why is Jesus Christ true 
God? 

See '-L. ofC.,"p. 17, No. 1. 

(Ex. 4. A. M. 2513.) Moses 
answered and said : They will 
not believe me, nor hear my 
voice, but they will say : The 
Lord hath not appeared to thee. 
Then he said to him : What is 
that thou boldest in thy hand ? 
He answered : A rod. And 
the Lord said : Cast it down 
upon the ground. He cast it 
down, and it was turned into a 
serpent: so that Moses fled 
from it. And the Lord said : 
Put out thy hand and take it 
by the tail. He put forth his 
hand, and took hold of it, and 
it was turned into a rod. That 
the}^ may believe, saith he, that 
the Lord God of their fathers, 
the God of Abraham, the God 
of Isaac, and the God of Ja- 
cob, hath appeared to thee. 
And the Lord said again : Put 
thy hand into thy bosom. And 
when he had put it into his 
bosom, he brought it forth 
leprous as snow. And he said : 
Put back thy hand into thy 
bosom. He put it back, and 
brought it out again, and it 
was like the other flesh. If 
they will not believe thee, saith 
he, nor hear the voice of the 



former sign, they will believe 
the word of the latter sisfn. 
But if they will not even be- 
lieve these two signs, nor hear 
thy voice : take of the river 
water, and pour it out upon 
the dry land, and whatsoever 
thou drawest out of the river, 
shall be turned into blood. 

(III. Kings 17. A.M. 3092.) 
Elias the Thesbite of the in- 
habitants of Galaad said to 
Achab : As the Lord liveth the 
God of Israel, in whose sight I 
stand, there shall not be dew 
nor rain these years, but ac- 
cording to the words of my 
mouth. And going, he dwelt 
by the torrent Carith, which is 
over-against the Jordan. And 
the ravens brought him bread 
and flesh in the morning, and 
bread and flesh in the evening, 
and he drank of the torrent. 
But after some time the torrent 
was dried up, for it had not 
rained upon the earth. Then 
the w^ord of the Lord came to 
him, saying : Arise, and go to 
Sarephta of the Sidonians, and 
dwell there : for I have com- 
manded a widow-woman there 
to feed thee. He arose, and 
went to Sarephta. And when 
he was come to the gate of the 
city, he saw the widow-woman 
gathering sticks, and he called 
her, and said to her : Give me a 
little water in a vessel, that I 
may drink. And w^hen she was 
ofoinor to fetch it he called after 
her, saying : Bring me also, I 
beseech thee, a morsel of bread 
in thy hand. And she an- 
swered : As the Lord thy God 



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liveth, I have no bread, but 
only a handful of meal in a 
pot, and a little oil in a cruse : 
behold I am gathering two 
sticks that 1 may go in and 
dress it, for me and my son, 
that we may eat it, and die. 
And Elias said to her : Fear 
not, but go, and do as thou hast 
said : but first make for me of 
the same meal a little hearth- 
cake, and bring it to me : and 
after make for thyself and thy 
son. For thus saith the Lord 
the God of Israel : The pot of 
meal shall not waste, nor the 
cruse of oil be diminished, until 
the da}^ wherein the Lord will 
give rain upon the face of the 
earth. She went and did ac- 
cording to the word of Elias : 
and he eat, and she, and her 
house : and from that day the 
pot of meal wasted not, and 
the cruse of oil was not dimin- 
ished, according to the word of 
the Lord, which he spoke in the 
i^nd of Elias. And it came to 
pass after this that the son of 
the woman, the mistress of the 
house, fell sick, and the sickness 
was very grievous, so that 
there was no breath left in 
him. And she said to Elias : 
"What have I to do with thee, 
thou man of God ? art thou 
come to me that my iniquities 
should be remembered, and that 
thou shouldst kill my son ? 
And Elias said to her : Give me 
thy son. And he took him out 
of her bosom, and carried him 
into the upper chamber where 
he abode, and laid him upon his 
own bed. And he cried to the 



Lord, and said : Lord my 
God, hast thou afflicted also the 
widow, with whom I am after a 
sort maintained, so as to kill 
her son ? And he stretched, 
and measured himself upon the 
child three times, and cried to 
the Lord, and said : O Lord my 
God, let the soul of this child, 
I beseech thee, return into his 
body. And the Lord heard the 
voice of Elias : and the soul of 
the child returned into him, and 
he revived. And Elias took 
the child, and brought him 
down from the upper chamber 
to the house below, and de- 
livered him to his mother, and 
said to her : Behold thy son 
liveth. And the woman said to 
Elias : Now, by this I know 
that thou art a man of God, 
and the word of the Lord in 
thy mouth is true. 

Q. Why is Jesus Christ true 
man? 

See"L. of C," P- 42, No. 44. 

(Jer.31. A.M. 3406.) Thus 
saith the Lord : A voice was 
heard on high of lamentation, 
of mourning, and weeping, of 
Rachel weeping for her chil- 
dren, and refusing to be com- 
forted for them, because they 
are not. Thus saith the 
Lord : Let thy voice cease from 
weeping, and thy eyes from 
tears : for there is a reward for 
thy work, saith the Lord : and 
they shall return out of the 
land of the enemy. And there 
is hope for th}^ last end, saith 
the Lord : and the children 
shall return to their own 



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borders. How long wilt thou 
be dissolute in deliciousness, O 
wandering daughter? (for the 
Lord hath created a new thing 
upon the earth ; A woman shall 
compass a man.) 

Q. Hew many natures are 
there in Jesus Christ ? 

See " L. of C," p. 25, No. 10; p. 56, Nos. 9, 
10. 

Q. Is Jesus Christ more than 
one person ? 

See ''L. of C," p. 91, No. 33. 

Q. Was Jesus Christ al-ways 
God? 

See "L. of C," p. 51, No. 12; p. 60.No. 18. 

(Ex. 3. A. M. 2513.) Now 
Moses fecj the sheep of Jethro 
his father-in-law, the priest of 
Madian : and he drove the flock 
to the inner parts of the desert, 
and came to the mountain of 
God, Horeb. And the Lord 
appeared to him in a flame of 
Are out of the midst of a bush : 
and he saw that the bush was 
on fire and was not burnt. And 
Moses said : I will go and see 
this great sight, why the bush 
is not burnt. And when the 
Lord saw that he went forward 
to see, he called to him out of 
the midst of the bush, and 
said : Moses, Moses. And he 
answered : Hear I am. And he 
said : Come not nigh hither, put 
off* the shoes from thy feet : for 
the place, whereon thou stand- 
est is holy ground. And he 
said : I am the God of th}^ 
father, the God of Abraham, the 
God of Isaac, and the God of 
Jacob. Moses hid his face : for 
be durst not looli at God. And 



the Lord said to him : I have 
seen the aflfliiction of my people 
in Egypt, and I have heard 
their cry because of the rigour 
of them that are over the 
works : and knowing their sor- 
row, I am come down to de- 
liver them out of the hands of 
tlie Egyptians, and to bring 
them out of that land into a 
good and spacious land, into a 
land that floweth with milk and 
honey, to the places of the 
Chanaanite, and Hethite, and 
Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and 
Hevite, and Jebusite. For the 
cry of the children of Israel is 
come unto me : and I have seen 
their affliction, wherewith they 
are oppressed by the Egyptians. 
But come, and I will send thee 
to Pharao, that thou mayst 
bring forth my people the chil- 
dren of Israel out of Egypt. 

Q. "Was Jesus Christ al-ways 
man? 

(Gal. 4.) Now I say, as long 
as the heir is a child, he dif- 
fereth nothing from a servant, 
though he be lord of all : but 
is under tutors and governors 
until the time appointed by the 
father: so we also, when we 
were children, were serving 
under the elements of the 
world. But when the fulness 
of the time was come, God sent 
his Son, made of a woman, 
made under the law : that he 
might redeem them who were 
under the law : that we might 
receive the adoption of sons. 
And because you are sons, God 
hath sent the Spirit of his Son 



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into your hearts, crying : Abba, 
Father. Therefore now he is 
not a servant, but a son. And 
if a son, an heir also through 
God. 

Q. "What do you mean by 
the Incarnation ? 

See "L. of C," p. 89, No. 29. 
(Phil. 2.) Christ being in 
the form of God, thought it 
not robbery to be equal with 
God : but emptied himself, 
taking the form of a servant, 
being made in the likeness of 
men, and in habit found as a 
man. 

Q. TLow ^was the Son of Grod 
made man ? 

See " L of C," p. 8, No. 4; p. 10, No. 8. 

(Ruth A. M. 2706.) In 
the days of one of the judges, 
when the judges ruled, there 
came a famine in the land. 
And a certain man of Bethle- 
hem Jnda, went to sojourn in 
the land of Moab with his 
wife and his two sons. And 
Elimelech the husband of 
Noemi died : and she remained 
with her sons. And they took 
wives of the women of Moab, of 
which one was called Orpha, 
and the other Ruth. And they 
dwelt there ten 3^ears. And 
they both died, to wit, Mahalon 
and Chelion: and the woman 
was left alone, having lost both 
her sons and her husband. 
And she arose to go from the 
land of Moab to her own 
country with both her daugh- 
ters-in-law : she said to them : 
Go ye home to your mothers, 
the Lord deal mercifully with 



you, as you have dealt with the 
dead and with me. And she 
kissed them. And they lifted 
up their voice and began to 
weep, and to say : We will 
go on with thee to thy people. 
But she answered them : Re- 
turn, my daughters, why come 
ye with me ? And they lifted 
up their voice, and began to 
weep again : Orpha kissed her 
mother-in-law and returned : 
Ruth stuck close to her mother- 
in-law. And Ruth the Moab- 
itess said to her mother-in- 
law : Be not against me, to de- 
sire that I should leave thee 
and depart: for whithersoever 
thou shalt go, I will go: and 
where thou shalt dwell, I also 
will dwell. Thy people shall he 
my people, and thy God my 
God. So Noemi came with 
Ruth the Moabitess her daugh- 
ter-in-law, from the land of her 
sojournment : and returned into 
Bethlehem, in the beginning of 
the barley harvest. And Ruth 
the Moabitess said to her 
mother-in-law : If thou wilt, I 
will go into the field, and glean 
the ears of corn that escape the 
hands of the reapers. She 
went therefore. And it hap- 
pened that the owner of that 
field was Booz, who was of the 
kindred of Elimelech. And 
Booz said to Ruth: Hear nie, 
daughter, do not go to glean in 
any otlier field, and do not de- 
pa,rt from this place : but keep 
with my maids. And she said : 
I have found grace in thy eyes, 
my lord, who hast comforted 
me and hast spoken to the 



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heart of thy handmaid, who 
am not like to one of thy 
maids. And Booz commanded 
his servants, saying : If she 
would even reap with you, 
hinder her not ; and let fall 
some of your handfuls of pur- 
pose, and leave them, that she 
may gather them without 
shame, and let no man rebuke 
her when she gathereth them. 
She gleaned therefore three 
bushels, which she took up and 
returned into the city, and 
showed it to her mother-in-law : 
moreover she brought out, and 
gave her of the remains of her 
meat, wherewith she had been 
filled. And when Booz had 
eaten, and drunk, and was 
merry, he went to sleep by the 
heap of sheaves, and she came 
softly and uncovering his feet, 
laid herself down. And he 
said to her: Who art thou? 
And she answered : I am Ruth 
thy handmaid: spread thy 
coverlet over thy servant, for 
thou art a near kinsman. And 
he said: Fear not therefore, 
but whatsoever thou shalt say 
to me I will do to thee. For 
all the people that dwell 
within the gates of nay city, 
know that thou art a virtu- 
ous woman. Neither do I 
deny myself to be near of kin, 
but there is another nearer than 
I. Rest thou this night : and 
when morning is come, if he 
will take thee by the right of 
kindred, all is well : but if he 
will not, I will undoubtedly 
take thee, as the Lord liveth. 
And again he said : Spread thy 



mantle, wherewith thou art 
covered, and hold it with both 
hands. And when she spread 
it and held it, he measured six 
measures of barle}^, and laid it 
upon her. And she carried it 
and went into the cit3^ Then 
Booz went up to the gate, and 
sat there. And when he had 
seen the kinsman going by, of 
whom he had spoken before, he 
said to him, calling him by his 
name: Turn aside lor a little 
while, and sit down here. They 
sat down, and he spoke to the 
kinsman : Noemi, who is re- 
turned from the country of 
Moab, will sell a parcel of land 
that belonged to our brother 
Elimelech. When thou shalt 
buy the field at the woman's 
hand, thou must take also 
Ruth the Moabitess, who was 
the wufe of the deceased : to 
raise up the name of thy kins- 
man in his inheritance. He 
answered : I ^ield up my right 
of next akin : for I must not 
cut off the posterity of my own 
family. Do thou make use of 
my privilege, which I profess I 
do willingly forego. Booz 
therefore took Ruth, and mar- 
ried her: and the Lord gave 
her to bear a son. And Noemi 
taking the child laid it in her 
bosom, and she carried it, and 
was a nurse unto it. And the 
women her neighbours, con- 
gratulated with her. 

Q. Is the Blessed Virgin 
Mary truly the Mother of 
God. 

See "L. of C.,'' p. 13, No 16: p. 38, No. 
29; p. 64, No. 25; p. 116, No. 7. 



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(Num. 36. A. M. 2553.) 
Moses answered the children of 
Israel, and said by the com- 
mand of the Lord : this is the 
law promulgated by the Lord 
touching the daughters of 
Salphaad: Let them marry 
to whom they will, only so that 
it be to men of their own tribe. 
Lest the possession of the chil- 
dren of Israel be mingled from 
tribe to tribe. For all men 
shall marry wives of their own 
tribe /and kindred: and all 
women shall take husbands of 
the same tribe: that the in- 
heritance may remain in the 
families, and that the tribes 
be not mingled one with an- 
other, but remain so, as they 
were separated by the Lord. 

(IIL Kings 2. A. M. 2000.) 
Adonias the son of Haggith 
came to Bethsabee the mother 
of Solomon. And she said to 
him : Is thy coming peaceable ? 
he answered : Peaceable. And 
he added : I have a word to 
speak with thee. She said to 
him : Speak. And he said : I 
pray thee speak to king Sol- 
omon (for he cannot deny thee 
any thing) to give me Abisag 
the Sunamitess to wife. And 
Bethsabee said : Well, I will 
speak for thee to the king. Then 
Bethsabee came to king Solo- 
mon, to speak to him for Ado- 
nias : and the king arose to meet 
her, and bowed to her, and sat 
down upon his throne : and a 
throne was set for the king's 
mother, and she sat on his right 
hand. And she said to him : I 
desire one small petition of 



thee, do not put me to con- 
fusion. And the king said to 
her : My mother, ask : for I 
must not turn away thy face. 

(Cant. 2.) Behold my be- 
loved speaketh to me : Arise, 
make haste, my love, my dove, 
my beautiful one, and come. 
For winter is now past, the 
rain is over and gone. The 
flowers have appeared in our 
land, the time of pruning is 
come : the voice of the turtle is 
heard in our land : the fig-tree 
hath put forth her green figs : 
the vines in flower yield their 
sweet smell. Arise, my love, 
my beautiful one, and come. 

(Isa. 7. A. M. 3262.) The 
Lork spoke to Achaz, saying : 
Ask thee a sign of the Lord 
thy God, either unto the depth 
of hell, or unto the height 
above. And Achaz said : I will 
not ask, and I will not tempt 
the Lord. And he said : Hear 
ye therefore, house of David: 
Is it a small thing for you to 
be grievous to men, that j^ou 
are grievous to my God also ? 
Therefore the Lord himself shall 
give 3^ou a sign. Behold a vir- 
gin shall conceive, and bear a 
son, and his name shall be call- 
ed Emmanuel. 

Q. Did the Son of G-od be- 
come man immediately af- 
ter the sin of our first par- 
ents ? 

See "L. of C," p. 87. No. 22; p. 88. Nos. 
24, 25. 

(Heb. 9.) Jesus is not en- 
tered into the Holies made with 
hands, the patterns of the true: 
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45 



may appear now in the pres- 
ence of God for us. Nor yet 
that be should offer himself 
often, as the high priest enter- 
eth into the Holies, every year 
with the blood of others : for 
then he ought to have suffered 
often from the beginning of the 
world : but now once at the 
end of ages, he hath appeared 
for the destruction of sin, by 
the sacrifice of himself And 
as it is appointed unto men 
once to die, and after this the 
judgment: so also Christ was 
offered once to exhaust the sins 
of many ; the second time he 
shall appear without sin to them 
that expect him unto salvation. 

Q. Ho^^ could they be saved 
who lived before the Son of 
God became man ? 

See "L. of C," P- 15, No. 1. 

(Gen. 21. A. M. 2113.) When 
Sara had seen the son of Agar 
the Egpytian playing with 
Isaac her son, she said to Abra- 
ham : Cast out this bondwoman, 
and her son : for the son of the 
bondwoman shall not be heir 
with my son Isaac. Abraham 
took this grievously for his son. 
And God said to him : Let it 
not seem grievous to thee for 
the boy, and for thy bond- 
woman : in all that Sara hath 
said to thee, liearken to her 
voice : for in Isaac shall thy 
seed be called. But I will make 
the son also of the bond-woman 
a great nation, because he is 
thy seed. So Abraham rose up 
in the morning, and taking 
bread and a bottle of water, put 



it upon her shoulder, and de- 
livered the boy, and sent her 
away. And she departed, and 
wandered in the wilderness 
of Bersabee. And when the 
water in the bottle was spent, 
she cast the boy under one of 
the trees that were there. And 
she went her wa}^, and sat over- 
against him a great way off as 
far as a bow can carry, for she 
said : I will not see the boy 
die : and sitting over-against, 
she lifted up her voice and 
wept. And God heard the voice 
of the boy : and an angel of 
God called to Agar from heav- 
en, sa3'ing : What art thou do- 
ing. Agar ? fear not : for God 
hath heard the voice of the boy, 
from the place wherein he is. 
Arise, take up the boy, and 
hold him by the hand : for I 
will m^ake him a great nation. 
And God opened her eyes : and 
she saw a well of water, and 
went and filled the bottle, and 
gave the boy to drink. And 
God was with him : and he 
grew and dwelt in the wilder- 
ness. 

Q. On what day vras the Son 
of Grod conceived and made 
man? 

See"L. of C.,"p.8, No. 4. 

Q. On -what day was Christ 
born? 

See "L. of C.."p. 10, No. 9. 

(Mic. 5.) And thou, Beth- 
lehem Ephrata, art a little one 
among the thousands of Juda : 
out of thee shall he come forth 
unto me that is to be the ruler 
in Israel : and his going forth 



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is from the beginning, from the I 
days of eternity. 

Q. How long did Christ live 
. on earth ? 

See "L. of C," p. 12, No. 12; p. 13, Nos. 
13, 15 ; p. 54, No. 2. 

(Gen. 39. A. M. 2286.) Jo- 
seph was brought into Egypt, 
and Putiphar an eunuch of 
Pharao, chief captain of the 
army, an Egyptian, bought him 
of tiie Ismaelites, iDy whonv he 
was brouoht. And the Lord 
was with him, and he was a 
prosperous man in all things : 
and lie dwelt in his master's 
house, who knew ver}" well 
that the Lord was with him, 
and made all that he did to 



prosper in his hand. And 
Joseph found favour in the sight 
of his master, and ministered 
to him : and being set over all 
by him, he governed the house 
committed to him, and all 
things that were delivered to 
him : and the Lord blessed 
the house of the Egyptian for 
Joseph's sake, and multii)lied 
all his substance, both at home, 
and in the fields. Neither knew 
he any other thing, but the 
bread w^hich he ate. And 
Jose[)h was of a beautiful coun- 
tenance, and comely to behold. 

Q. "Why did Christ live so 
long on earth ? 

See " L. of C," p. 23, No. 8: p. 25, No. 11; 
p. 27, No. 15 ; p. 47, No. 1 ; p. 53, No. 20. 



LESSON EIGHTH, 



ON OUR lord's passion, DEATH, RESURRECTION, AND ASCENSION. 



Q. 'What did Jesus Christ 
suffer ? 

See " L. of C," p. 52, No. 14: p. 97. No, 45; 
p. 99. No. 3 ; p 108, Nos. 1 . 2 ; p. 109, No. 3 ; 
!>. no. No. 1; p. Ill, No. 6; ]). 313, Nos. 
3. 4; p. 114. No. 5; p. 115, Cpt. vii., Nos. 
3,2. 

(Isa. 53.) He shall grow up 
as a tender plant before him, 
and as a root out of a thirst}^ 
ground : there is no beauty in 
him, nor comeliness: and we 
have seen him, and there was 
no sightliness, that we should 
be desirous of him : despised, 
and the most abject of men, a 
man of sorrows, and acquainted 
with infirmity : and his look 
was as it were hidden and de- 



spised, whereupon we esteemed 
him not. Surely lie hath borne 
our infirmities and carried our 
sorrows : and we have thought 
him as it were a leper, and as 
one struck bj' God and aflflicted. 
But he was wounded for our 
iniquities, he was bruised for 
our sins : the chastisement of 
our peace luas upon him, and by 
his bruises we are healed. All 
we like sheep have gone astra}^ 
every one hath turned aside in- 
to his own way : and the Lord 
hath laid on him the iniquity 
of us all. He was offered be- 
cause it was his own will, and 
he opened not his mouth : he 



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47 



shall be led as a sheep to the 
slaughter, and shall be dumb as 
a lamb before his shearer, and 
he shall not open his mouth. 
He was taken away from dis- 
tress, and from judgment : who 
shall declare his generation ? 
because he is cut off out of the 
land of the living : for the 
wickedness of my people have 
I struck him. 



Q. On -what day did Christ 
die? 

See "L. of C," p. 116, No. 8. 



Q. Why do you call that day 
**good" on which Christ 
died so sorrowful a death ? 

See "L. of C," p. 59, No. 16. 

(Num. 20. A. M. 2252.) The 
children of Israel, and all the 
multitude came into the desert 
of Sin, in the first month : and 
the people abode in Cades. 
And Mary died there, and was 
buried in the same place. And 
the people wanting water, came 
toojether ao;ainst Moses and 
Aaron : and making a sedi- 
tion, i\iQj said : Would God 
we had perished among our 
brethren before the Lord. 
Moses therefore took the rod, 
which was before the Lord, as 
he had commanded him, and 
having gathered together the 
multitude before the rock, he 
said to them : Hear, 3^e rebel- 
lious and incredulous : Can we 
bring you forth water out of 
this rock ? When Moses had 
lifted up his hand, and struck 
the rock twice with the rod, 
there came forth water in great 



abundance, so that the people 
and their cattle drank. 

Q. 'Where did Christ die ? 

See " L. of C," p. 115, Cpt. vii., No, 1, 

Q. How did Christ die ? 

See "L. of C. " p. 87, No. 21 ; p. 11.5, Cpt. 
vii., Nos. 2, 3 ; p. 116, Nos. 4-8. 

(Num. 21. A. M. 2553.) The 
Israelites marched from mount 
Hor, by the wa}^ that leadeth 
to the Red Sea, to compass the 
land of Edom. And the people 
began to be weary of their jour- 
ney and labour: and speaking 
against God and Moses, they 
said : Why didst thou bring us 
out of Egypt, to die in the 
wilderness ? There is no bread, 
nor have we any waters : our 
soul now loatheth this veiy 
light food. Wherefore the Lord 
sent among the people fiery 
serpents, which bit them and 
killed many of them. Upon 
which they came to Moses, and 
said : We have sinned, because 
we have spoken against the 
Lord and thee ; pray that he 
ma}^ take away these serpents 
from us. And Moses prayed 
for the people. And the Lord 
said to him : Make a brazen 
serpent, and set it up for a 
sign: whosoever being struck 
shall look on it, shall live. 
Moses therefore made a brazen 
serpent, and set it up for a 
sign : which when they that 
were bitten looked upon, they 
were healed. 

(Josh. 10. A.M. 2553.) Then 
Josue spoke to the Lord, in the 
day that he delivered the 
Amorrhite in the sight of the 



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children of Israel, and he said 
before them : Move not, O sun, 
toward Gabaen, nor thou, O 
moon, toward the valley of 
Ajalon. And the sun and the 
moon stood still, till the people 
revenged themselves of their 
enemies. Is not this written in 
the book of the just? So the 
sun stood still in the midst of 
heaven, and hasted not to go 
down the space of one day. 
There was not before nor after 
so long a day, the Lord obey- 
ing the voice of a man, and 
fighting for Israel. 

Q. "Why did Christ suffer and 
die? 

See ''L. of C," p. 70, No. 3. 

(Gen. 22. A.M. 2135.) After 
these things, God tempted Abra- 
ham, and said to him : Abra- 
ham, Abraham. And he an- 
swered : Here I am. He said 
to him: Take thy only begotten 
son Isaac, whom thou lovest, 
and go into the land of vision : 
and there thou shalt offer him 
for an holocaust upon one of 
mountains which I will shew 
thee. So Abraham rising up 
in the night, saddled his ass : 
and took with him two young 
men, anc^ Isaac his son : and 
when he had cut wood for the 
holocaust he went his way to 
the place which God had com- 
manded him. And on the third 
day, lifting up his eyes, he saw 
the place afar off. And he said 
to his 3'oung men ; Stay you 
here with the . ass : I and the 
boy will go with speed as far 
as yonder, and after we have 



worshipped, will return to you. 
And he took the wood for the 
holocaust, and laid it upon 
Isaac his son and he himself 
carried in his hands fire and a 
sword. And as they two went 
on together, Isaac said to his 
father : My father. And he 
answered: What wilt thou, 
son ? Behold, saith he, fire and 
wood : where is the victim for 
the holocaust ? And Abraham 
said : God will provide him- 
self a victim for an holocaust, 
my son. So they went on to- 
gether. And they came to the 
place which God had shewn 
him, where he built an altar, 
and laid the wood in order up- 
on it ; and when he had bound 
Isaac his son, he laid him on 
the altar upon the pile of wood. 
And he put forth his hand and 
took the sword, to sacrifice his 
son. And behold an Angel of 
the Lord from heaven called to 
him, saying : Abraham, Abra- 
ham. And he answered ; Here 
I am. And he said to him : 
Lay not thy hand upon the 
boy, neither do thou anything 
to him : now I know that thou 
fearest God, and hast not spared 
thy only begotten son for 
my sake. Abraham lifted up 
his eyes, and saw behind his 
back a ram amongst the briars 
sticking fast by the horns, 
which he took and offered for a 
holocaust instead of his son. 

(Ex.17.) So the people were 
thirsty there for want of water, 
and murmured against Moses, 
sajang : Why didst thou make 
us go forth out of Egypt, to 



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kill us and our children, and 
our beasts with thirst ? And 
Moses cried to the Lord, say- 
ing: What shall I do to this 
people ? Yet a little more and 
tiiey will stone me. And the 
Lord said to Moses : Go before 
the people, and take with thee 
of the ancients of Israel : and 
take in thy hand the rod where- 
with thou didst strike the 
river, and go. Behold I will 
stand there before thee, upon 
the rock Horeb : and thou 
shalt strike the rock, and water 
shall come out of it that the 
people may drink. Moses did 
so before the ancients of Israel. 
(lY. Kings 6. A. M. 3116.) 
The sons of the prophets said 
to Eliseus : Behold the place 
where we dwell with thee is too 
strait for us. Let us go as far 
as the Jordan and take out of 
the wood every man a piece of 
timber, that we may build us 
there a place to dwell in. And 
he said : Go. And one of them 
said : But come thou also with 
thy servants. He answered : I 
will come. So he went with 
them. And when they were 
come to the Jordan they cut 
down wood. And it happened, 
as one was felling some timber, 
that the head of the axe fell 
into the water : and he cried 
out, and said : Alas, alas, alas, 
my lord, for this same was bor- 
rowed. And the man of God 
said : Where did it fall ? and 
he shewed him the place. Then 
he cut off a piece of wood, and 
cast it in thither : and the iron 
swam. 



Q. What lessons do we 
learn from the sufferings 
and death of Christ ? 

See "L. oIC.,'" p. 78, No. 22. 

(Titus 2.) The grace of 
God our Saviour hath appeared 
to all men ; instructing us, that, 
denying ungodliness and world- 
ly desires, we should live 
soberly, and justly, and godly 
in this world, looking for the 
blessed hope and coming of 
the glory of the great God and 
our Saviour Jesus Christ, who 
gave himself for us, that he 
might redeem us from all 
iniquity, and might cleanse to 
himself a people acceptable, a 
pursuer of good works. 

Q. "Whither did Christ's soul 
go after His Death ? 

(Apoc. 6. A. D. 64.) When 
he had opened the fifth seal, 
I saw under the altar the souls 
of them that w^ere slain for the 
word of God, and for the testi- 
mony which they held. And 
they cried with a loud voice, 
saying : How long, Lord 
(holy and true) dost thou not 
judge and revenge our blood 
on them that dwell on the 
earth ? And white robes were 
given to every one of them 
one; and it was said to them, 
that they should rest for a lit- 
tle time, till their fellow-serv- 
ants, and their brethren, who 
are to be slain, even as they, 
should be filled up. 

Q. Did Christ's soul descend 
into the hell of the damned ? 

See "L. of C/'p. 126, No. 25. 



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Q. Why did Christ descend 
into Limbo ? 

(Apoc. 1.) One of the an- 
cients answered, and said to 
me : These that are clothed in 
white robes, who are they ? 
and whence came they ? And 
I said to him ; My Lord, thou 
knowest. And he said to me : 
These are they who are come 
out of great tribulation, and 
have washed their robes, and 
have made them w^hite in the 
blood of the Lamb. Therefore 
they are before the throne of 
God, and they serve him day 
and night in his temple : and 
he, that sitteth on the throne, 
shall dwell over them. They 
shall no more hunger nor thirst, 
neither shall the sun fall on 
them, nor any heat. For the 
Lamb, which is in the midst of 
the throne, shall rule them, and 
shall lead them to the fountains 
of the waters of life, and God 
shall wipe away all tears from 
their eyes. 

Q. 'Where was Christ's body 
while his soul was in 
Limbo ? 

See*'L. of C," p. 117, No. 10. 

Q. On what day did Christ 
rise from the dead ? 

See "L. of C," p. 118, No. 11; p. 119, No.l. 

(Zach. 3. A. M. 3485.) The 
Lord shewed me Jesus the 
high priest standing before the 
Angel of the Lord : and satan 
stood on his right hand to be 
his adversary. And the Lord 
said to satan : The Lord rebuke 
thee, satan : and the Lord 
that chose Jerusalem rebuke 



thee : Is not this a brand 
pluckt out of the fire ? And 
Jesus was clothed with filthy 
garments : and he stood before 
the face of the Angel. Who 
answered, and said to them 
that stood before him, sa3ing : 
Take away the filthy garments 
from him. And he said to him : 
Behold I have taken away thy 
iniquity, and have clothed thee 
with change of garments. And 
he said : Put a clean mitre 
upon his head : and they put a 
clean mitre upon his head, and 
clothed him with garments. 

Q. How long did Christ stay 
on earth after His resur- 
rection ? 

See "L. of C," p. 119, No. 2; p. 120, Nos. 
3. 4; p. 121, No. 7; p. 122. Nos. 9, 10; p. 
124, Nos. 14-16; p. 128, No. 28. 

Q. After Christ had re- 
mained forty days on earth 
whither did He go ? 

See "L. of C," p. 124, No. 18; p. 125, Nos. 
19, 20. 

(Gen. 47. A.M. 2300.) Then 
Joseph went in and told Pharao, 
saying : My father and breth- 
ren, their sheep and their herds, 
and all that they possess, are 
come out of the land of Cha- 
naan : and behold they stay in 
the land of Gessen. Five men 
also the last of his brethren, he 
presented before the king : and 
he asked them: What is your 
occupation? They answered: 
We thy servants are shepherds, 
both we, and our fathers. We 
are come to sojourn in th3Mand, 
because there is no grass for 
the flocks of thy servants, the 
famine being very grievous in 



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the land of Chanaan : and we 
pray thee to give orders that 
we thy servants may be in the- 
land of Gessen. The king 
therefore said to Joseph : Thy 
father and thy brethren are 
come to thee. The land of 
Egypt is before thee : make 
them dwell in the best place, 
and give them the land of Ges- 
sen. And if thou knowest that 
there are industrious men 
among them, make them rulers 
over my cattle. 

Q. "Where is Christ in heav- 
en? 

(Acts 7. A. D. 33.) Stephen, 
full of grace and fortitude, did 
great wonders and signs among 
the people, saying : You stiff- 
necked and uncircumcised in 
heart and ears, ^'ou always re- 
sist the Holy Ghost : as yonr 
fathers did^ so do you also. 
Which of the prophets have 
not your fathers persecuted ? 
And they have slain them who 
foretold of the coming of the 
Just One ; of whom you have 
been now the betrayers and 
murderers : who have received 
the law by the disposition of 
Angels, and have not kept it. 



Now hearing these things, they 
were cut to the heart, and they 
gnashed with their teeth at 
him. But he, being full of the 
Holy Ghost, looking up stead- 
fastly to heaven, saw the glory 
of God, and Jesus standing on 
the right hand of God. And 
he said : Behold, I see the heav- 
ens opened, and the Son of 
man standing on the right 
hand of God. And they cry- 
ing out with a loud voice, 
stopped their ears, and with one 
accord ran violently upon him. 
And casting him forth without 
the city, they stoned him ; and 
the witnesses laid dow^n their 
garments at the feet of a young 
man, whose name was Saul. 
And they stoned Stephen, in- 
voking and saying : Lord Jesus, 
receive my spirit. And falling 
on his knees, he cried with a 
loud voice, saying : Lord, lay 
not this sin to their charge. 
And when he had said this, he 
fell asleep in the Lord. And 
Saul was consenting to his 
death. 

Q. "What do you mean by 
saying that Christ sits at the 
right hand of Grod? 

See "L. of C," p. HI, No 7. 



LESSO]!^ NINTH. 



ON THE »OLY GHOST AND HIS DESCENT UPON THE APOSTLES. 



Q. "Who is the Holy Ghost? 

(Rom. 5.) Being justified 

therefore by faith, let us have 

peace with God, through our 



Lord Jesus Christ : by whom 
also we have access through 
faith into this grace, w^ierein 
w^e stand, and glory in the hope 



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of the glor}^ of the sons of God. 
And not onl}^ so ; but we glory 
also in tribulations, knowing 
that tribulation worketh pa- 
tience ; and patience trial ; and 
trial hope ; and hope confound- 
eth not : because the charity of 
God is poured forth in our 
hearts, by the Holy Ghost, who 
is given to us. 

Q. Prom whom does the Holy- 
Ghost proceed ? 

See"L. of C.,"p. 105, No. 7. 

Q. Is the Holy G-host equal 
to the Father and the Son ? 

(I. John 5.) It is the Spirit 
which testifieth, that Christ is 
the truth. And there are three 
who give testimony in heaven, 
the Father, the Word, and the 
Holy Ghost. And these three 
are one. 

Q. On Tvhat day did the 
Holy G-host come do'wn 
upon the Apostles ? 

See "L. of C.,"p. 125, No. 23. 

Q. Ho'w did the Holy G-host 
come do'wn upon the Apos- 
tles ? 

See "L. of C," p. 125, No. 23. 

Q. "Who sent the Holy Ghost 
upon the Apostles ? 

(Gen. 50. A. M. 2369.) Jo- 
seph returned into Egypt with 
his brethren, and all that were 
in his company, after he had 
buried his father. After which 
he told his brethren : God will 
visit you after my death, and 
will make you go up out of 
this land, to the land which he 
swore to Abraham, Isaac, and 
Jacob. 



Q. Why did Christ send the 
Holy Ghost ? 

(Isa. 60.) Arise, be enlight- 
ened, Jerusalem : for thy 
light is come, and the glory of 
tlie Lord is risen upon thee. 
For behold darkness shall cover 
the earth, and a mist tlie peo- 
ple : but the Lord shall arise 
upon thee, and his glory shall 
be seen upon thee. And the 
Gentiles shall walk in thy 
light, and kings in the bright- 
ness of th}^ rising. Iniquity 
shall no more be heard in thy 
land, wasting nor destruction 
in thy borders, and salvation 
shall possess thy walls, and 
praise thy gates. Thou shalt 
no more have the sun for thy 
light by day, neither shall the 
brightness of the moon enlight- 
en thee : but the Lord shall be 
unto thee for an everlasting 
light and thy God for thy 
glory. Thy sun shall go down 
no more, and thy moon shall 
not decrease : for the Lord 
shall be unto thee for an ever- 
lasting light, and the da3^s of 
thy mourning shall be ended. 
And thy people shall he all 
just, they shall inherit the land 
for ever, the branch of my 
planting, the work of my hand 
to g\ov\fy me. The least shall 
become a thousand, and a little 
one a most strong nation : I 
the Lord will suddenly do this 
thing in its time. ^ 

(Ezek. 34. A. M. 341Y.) The 
word of the Lord came to me, 
saying : Son of man, prophesy 
concerning the shepherds of 
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the shepherds : Thus saith the 
Lord God: Wo to the shepherds 
of Israel, that fed themselves : 
should not the flocks be fed by 
the shepherds ? The weak you 
have not strengthened, and that 
which was sick you have not 
healed, that which was broken 
you have not bound up, and 
that which was driven away 
you have not brought again, 
neither have you sought that 
which was lost : but you ruled 
over them with rigour, and with 
a high hand. And my sheep 
were scattered, because there 
was no shepherd : and they be- 
came the prey of all the beasts 
of the field, and were scattered. 
My sheep have wandered in 
every mountain, and in every 
high hill : and my flocks were 
scattered upon the face of the 
earth, and there was none that 
sought them, there was none, I 
say, that sought them. But 
thus saith the Lord God : Be- 
hold I myself will seek my 
sheep, and will visit them. As 
the shepherd visiteth his flock 
in the day when he shall be in 
the midst of his sheep that 
were scattered, so will I visit 
my sheep, and will deliver them 



out of all the places where 
they have been scattered in the 
cloudy and dark day. And I 
will bring them out from the 
peoples, and will gather them 
out of the countries, and will 
bring them to their own land : 
and I will feed them in the 
mountains of Israel, by the 
rivers, and in all the habita- 
tions of the land. 1 will feed 
them in the most fruitful pas- 
tures, and their pastures shall 
be in the high mountains of 
Israel : there shall they rest on 
the green grass, and be fed in 
fat pastures upon the moun- 
tains of Israel. I will feed my 
sheep : and I will cause them 
to lie down, saith the Lord 
God. I will seek that which 
was lost : and that which was 
driven awa,y, I will bring 
again : and I will bind up that 
which was broken, and I will 
strengthen that which was 
weak, and that which was fat 
and strong I will preserve : 
and I will feed them in judg- 
ment. 

Q. "Will the Holy Ghost 
abide -with the Church for 
ever ? 

See"L. ofC.,"p.l03, No.2. 



LESSON TENTH. 



ON THE EFFECTS OF THE REDEMPTION. 



Q. Which are the chief ef- 
fects of the Redemption ? 

(Titus 2.) The grace of God 
our Saviour hath appeared to 



all men ; instructing us, that, 
denying ungodliness and world- 
ly desires, we should live sob- 
erl}^, and justly, and godly in 



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this world, looking for the 
blessed hope and coming of the 
glory of the great God and 
our Saviour Jesus Christ, who 
gave himself for us, that he 
might redeem us from all in- 
iquit3% and might cleanse to 
himself a people acceptable, a 
pursuer of good works. 

Q. What do you mean by- 
grace ? 

See ''L. of C," p. 21, No 6. 

Q. How many kinds of grace 
are there ? 

(Ezek. 36.) I will give you 
a new heart, and put a new^ 
spirit w4thin you : and I will 
take away the stony heart out 
of your flesh, and will give you 
a heart of flesh. And I will 
put my spirit in the midst of 
you : and I will cause you to 
walk in my commandments, 
and to keep my judgments, 
and do them. 

Q. What is sanctifying 
grace ? 

See "L. of C," p. 104, No. 4. 

Q. "What do you call those 
graces or gifts of G-od by 
-which Tve believe in Him, 
hope in Him, and love Him ? 

See "L. of C," p. 45, No. 50. 
(Rom. 5.) Being justified 
by faith, let us have peace with 
God, through our Lord Jesus 
Christ: by whom also we have 
access through faith into this 
grace, wherein we stand, and 
glory in the hope of the glory 
of the sons of God. And not 
only so ; but we glory also in 
tribulations, knowing that 



tribulation workelh patience ; 
and patience trial ; and trial 
hope ; and hope confoundeth 
not : because the charity of God 
is poured forth in our hearts, 
by the Holy Ghost, who is 
given to us. 

Q. What is Faith ? 

See "L. of C," p. 35, No. 23; p. 42, Nos. 
42,45; p. 76, No. 17. 

(Heb. 11.) Now faith is the 
substance of things to be hoped 
for, the evidence of things that 
appear not. 

(James 2.) What shall it 
profit, my brethren, if a man 
say he hath faith, but hath not 
works? Shall faith be able to 
save him? And if a brother 
or sister be naked, and want 
daily food : and one of you 
say to them : Go in peace, be 
ye warmed and filled ; yet give 
them not those things that are 
necessary for the body, what 
shall it profit ? So faith also, 
if it have not works, is dead in 
itself. But some man will say : 
Thou hast faith, and I have 
works : shew me thy faith with- 
out works ; and I will shew 
thee, by works, my faith. Thou 
believest that there is one God. 
Thou dost well : the devils also 
believe and tremble. 

(Josh. 2. A. M. 2553.) Josue 
the son of Nun sent from 
Setim two men, to spy secret- 
ly : and said to them : Go, and 
view the land and the city of 
Jericho. They went and en- 
tered into the house of a woman 
named Eahab, and lodged with 
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sent to Rahab, saying : Bring 
fortli the men tliat came to 
thee, and are entered into thy 
honse : for they are spies, and 
are come to view all the land. 
And the woman taking the men, 
hid them, and said : I confess 
they came to me, but I 
knew not whence they were : 
And at the time of shutting 
the gate in \\i% dark, they also 
went out together. I know not 
whither they are gone : pursue 
after them quickly, and you 
will overtake them. Now the 
men that were hidden were not 
yet asleep, when behold the 
woman went up to them, and 
said : 1 know that the Lord 
hath given this land to you : 
for the dread of you is fallen 
upon us, and all the inhabitants 
of the land have lost all 
strength. Now therefore swear 
ye to me by the Lord, that as I 
have shewn mercy to you, so 
you also will shew mercy to my 
father's house : and give me a 
true token, that you will save 
my father and mother, my 
brethren and sisters, and all 
things that are theirs, and de- 
liver our souls from death. 
And they said to her : We 
shall be blameless of this oath, 
which thou hast made us swear : 
if when we come into the land, 
this scarlet cord be a sign, and 
thou tie it in the window, b}^ 
which thou hast let us down : 
and gather together thy father 
and mother, and brethren and 
all thy kindred into thy house. 
Whosoever shall go out of the 
door of thy house, his blood 



shall be upon his own head, and 
we shall be quit. But the blood 
of all that shall be with thee in 
the house, shall light upon our 
head, if any man touch them. 
But if thou wilt betray us, and 
utter this word abroad, we shall 
be quit of this oath which thou 
hast made us swear. And she 
answered : As you have spoken, 
so be it done. And sending 
them on their way, she hung 
the scarlet cord in the window. 

Q. What is Hope ? 

(Kom. 8.) We are saved by 
hope. But hoj^e that is seen, 
is not hope. For what a man 
seeth, why doth he hope for? 
But if we hope for that which 
we see not, we wait for it with 
patience. What shall we then 
say to these things ? If God 
be for us, who is against us ? 
He that spared not even his 
own Son, but delivered him up 
for us all, how hath he not also, 
with him, given us all things? 

Q. \\niat is Charity ? 

(I. Cor. 13.) If I speak with 
the tongues of men, and of 
angels, and have not charity, I 
am become as sounding brass, 
or a tinkling cymbal. And if 
I should have prophecy and 
should know all mysteries, and 
nil knowledge, and if I should 
have all faith, so that I could 
remove mountains, and have 
not charity, I am nothing. And 
if I should distribute all my 
goods to feed the poor, and if I 
should deliver my body to be 
burned, and have not charity^ 



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it profiteth me nothing. Cliar- 
ity is patient, is kind : charity 
envieth not, dealeth not per- 
versely ; is not puffed up ; is 
not ambitious, seeketh not her 
own, is not provoked to anger, 
thinketh no evil ; rejoiceth 
not in iniquity, but rejoiceth 
with the truth ; beareth all 
things, believeth all things, 
hopeth all things, endureth all 
things. Charit}'^ never falleth 
awa}' : whether prophecies shall 
be made void, or tongues shall 
cease, or knowledge shall be 
destroyed. For we know in 
part, and we prophesy in part. 
But when that which is perfect 
is come, that which is in part 
shall be done away. When I 
was a child, I spoke as a child, 
I understood as a child, I 
thought as a child. But, when 
I became a man, I put away the 
things of a child. We see now 
through a glass in a dark man- 
ner ; but then face to face. 
Now I know in part ; but then 
I shall know even as I am 
known. And now there remain 
faith, hope, charity, these three ; 
but the greater - of these is 
charity. 

(lY. Kings 2. A. M. 3108.) 
It came to pass, when the Lord 
would take up Elias into 
heaven by a whirlwind, that 
Elias and Eliseus were going 
from Galgal. And Elias said 
to him : 8tay here, because the 
Lord hath sent me as far as the 
Jordan. And he said : As the 
Lord liveth, and as thy soul 
liveth, I will not leave thee ; 
and they two went on together. 



Soon they two stood by the 
Jordan. And Elias took his 
mantle and folded it together, 
and struck the waters, and they 
were divided hither and thith- 
er, and they both passed over 
on dry ground. And when 
they were gone over, Elias said 
to Eliseus : Ask what thou wilt 
have me to do for thee, before I 
be taken away from thee. And 
Eliseus said : I beseech thee 
that in me may be thy double 
spirit. And as they went on, 
walking and talking together, 
behold a llery chariot, and fiery 
horses parted them both asun- 
der : and Elias went up by a 
whirlwind into heaven. And 
Eliseus took up the mantle of 
Elias, that fell from him : and 
going back, he stood upon the 
bank of the Jordan, and he 
struck the waters with the 
mantle of Elias, that had fallen 
from him, and they were not 
divided. And he said : Where 
is now the God of Elias ? And 
he struck the waters, and they 
were divided, hither and thith- 
er, and Eliseus passed over. 

Q. "What is actual grace ? 

See "L. of C," p. 50, No. 9. 

Q. Is grace necessary to sal- 
vation ? 

(Ex. 5. A.M. 2513.) Pharao 
commanded the same day the 
overseers of the works, and the 
task-masters of the people, say- 
ing : You shall give straw no 
more to the people to make 
brick, as before : but let them 
go and gather straw. And you 
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bricks, which they did before, 
neither shall you diminish any 
thing thereof: for they are 
idle, and therefore they cry, 
sa3^ing : Let us go and sacrifice 
to our God. Let them be op- 
pressed, with works, and let 
them fulfil them : that they 
ma}" not regard lying words. 

Q. Can 'we resist the grace 
of Qod? 

(L Kings 5. A.M. 2888.) The 
Philistines took the ark of God 
and brought it mto the temple 
of Dagon, and set it by Dagon. 
And when the Azotians arose 
early the next day, behold Da- 
gon lay upon his face on the 
ground before the ark of the 
Lord : and they took Dagon, 
and set him again in his place. 
And the next day again, when 
they arose in the morning, they 
found Dagon lying upon his 
face on the earth before the ark 
of the Lord : and the head of 
Dagon, and both the palms of 
his hands were cut off upon the 
threshold : and only the stump 
of Dagon remained in its place. 
For this cause neither the 
priests of Dagon, nor any that 
go into the temple tread on the 
threshold of Dagon in Azotus 
unto this day. And the hand 
of the Lord was heavy upon 
the Azotians, and he destroyed 
them. And while they were 
carrying it about, the hand of 
the Lord came upon ever}^ city 
with an exceeding great slaugh- 
ter: and he smote the men of 
every city, both small and 
great, and they had emerods. 



And the Gethrites consulted to- 
gether. Therefore they sent 
the ark of God into Accaron. 
And when the ark of God was 
come into Accaron, the Acca- 
ronites cried out, saying : They 
have brought the ark of the 
God of Israel to us, to kill us 
and our people. They sent 
therefore and gathered together 
all the lords of the Philistines : 
and they said : Send away the 
ark of the God of Israel, and 
let it return into its own place, 
and not kill us and our people. 
For there was the fear of death 
in every city, and the hand of 
God was exceeding heavy. 

(I. Kings 19. A. M. ^2944.) 
David fled and escaped, and came 
to Samuel in Ramatha, and 
told him all that Saul had done 
to him : and he and Samuel 
went and dwelt in Najoth. And 
it was told Saul by some, sa}^- 
ing : Behold David is in Najoth 
in Ramatha. So Saul sent offi- 
cers to take David : and when 
they saw a company of proph- 
ets prophesying, and Samuel 
presiding over them, the Spirit 
of the Lord came also upon 
them, and they likewise began 
to prophesy. And when this 
was told Saul, he sent other 
messengers : but thoy also 
prophesied. And again Saul 
sent messengers the third time: 
and they prophesied also. And 
Saul being exceedingly angry, 
went also himself to Ramatha, 
and came as far as the great 
cistern, which is in Socho, and 
he asked, and said : In what 
place are Samuel and David ? 



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And it was told him : Behold 
they are in Najoth in Rainatha. 
And he went to Najoth, in 
Ramatha, and the Spirit of the 
Lord came upon him also, and 
he went on, and prophesied till 
he came to Najoth in Ramatha. 

(Isa. 6. A. M. 3246.) One of 
the Seraphims flew to me, and 
in his hand was a live coal, 
which he had taken with the 
tongs off the altar. And he 
touched my mouth, and said : 
Behold this hath touched thy 
lips, and th}^ iniquities shall be 
taken away, and thy sin shall 
be cleansed. And I heard the 
voice of the Lord, saying : 
Whom shall I send ? and who 
shall go for us? And I said: 
Lo, here am I, send me. And 
he said : Go, and thou shalt say 
to this people : Hearing hear, 
and understand not : and see 
the vision, and know it not. 
Blind the heart of this people, 
and make their ears heavy, and 
shut their e3^es : lest they see 
with their eyes, and hear with 
their ears, and understand with 
their heart, and be converted 
and I heal them. 

(Jonas A. M. 3119.) Now 
the word of the Lord came to 
Jonas the son of Amathi, say- 
ing: Arise, and go to Ninive 
the great city, and preach in 
it : for the wickedness thereof 
is come up before me. And 
Jonas rose up to flee into 
Tharsis from the face of the 
Lord, and he went down to 
Joppe, and found a ship going 
to Tharsis : and he paid the 
fare thereof, and went down 



into it, to go with them to 
Tharsis from the face of the 
Lord. But the Lord sent a 
great wind into the sea : and a 
great tempest was raised in the 
sea, and the ship was in danger 
to be broken. And the mariners 
were afraid, and the men cried 
to their god : and they cast 
forth the wares that were in 
the ship, iuto the sea, to light- 
en it of them : and Jonas went 
down into the inner part of the 
ship, and fell into a deep sleep. 
And the ship-master came to 
him, and said to him : Why art 
thou fast asleep ? rise up, call 
upon thy God, if so be that 
God will think of us, that we 
may not perish. And they said 
every one to his fellow: Come, 
and let us cast lots, that we 
may know why this evil is 
upon us. And they cast lots, 
and the lot fell upon Jonas. 
And he said to them : Take me 
up, and cast me into the sea, 
and the sea shall be calm to 
you : for I know that for my 
sake this great tempest is upon 
you. And they took Jonas, 
and cast him into the sea, and 
the sea ceased from raging. 
Now the Lord prepared a great 
fish to swallow up Jonas : and 
Jonas was in the belly of the 
fish three days and three nights. 
And Jonas prayed to the Lord 
his God out of the belly of the 
fish. And the Lord spoke to 
the fish : and it vomited out 
Jonas upon the dry land. And 
Jonas arose, and went to Nin- 
ive, according to the word of 
the Lord : now Ninive was a 



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great cit}^ of three days' jour- 
ney. And Jonas began to en- 
ter into the city one day's 
journey: and he cried, and 
said : Yet forty days, and Nin- 
ive shall be destroyed. And 
the men of Ninive believed in 
God : and they proclaimed a 
fast, and put on sackcloth from 
the greatest to the least. And 
the word came to the king of 
Ninive ; and he rose up out of 
his throne, and cast away his 
robe from him, and was clothed 
with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 
And God saw their works, 
that they were turned from 
their evil way : and God had 
mercy with regard to the evil 
which he had said that he would 
do to them, and he did it not. 
And Jonas was exceedingly 
troubled, and was angry : and 
the Lord said : Dost thou think 
thou hast reason to be angry ? 
Then Jonas went out of the 
city, and sat toward the east 
side of the city : and he made 
himself a booth there, and he 
sat under it in the shadow, till 
he might see w^hat would befall 
the city. And the Lord God 
prepared an ivy, and it came 
up over the head of Jonas, to 
be a shadow over his head, and 
to cover him (for he was fa- 
tigued) : and Jonas was exceed- 
ing glad of the ivy. But God 
prepared a worm, when the 
mornino^ arose on the foUowinor 
day : and it struck the ivy and 
it withered. And when the sun 
was risen, the Lord commanded 
a hot and burning wind : and 
the sun beat upon the head of 



Jonas, and he broiled with the 
heat: and he desired for his 
soul that he might die, and 
said : It is better for me to die 
than to live. And the Lord 
said to Jonas : Dost thou think 
thou hast reason to be angry, 
for the ivy ? And he said : I 
am angiy with reason even 
unto death. And the Lord said : 
Thou art grieved for the ivy, 
for which thou hast not la- 
boured, nor made it to grow, 
which in one night came up, and 
in one night perished. And 
shall not I spare Ninive, that 
great city, in which there are 
more than a hundred and twenty 
thousand persons that know not 
how to distinguish between their 
right hand and their left. 

Q. What Is the grace of per- 
severance ? 

See "L. ofC.,"p. 64, No. 24. 

(Gen. 48. A. M. 23L5.) Jo- 
seph set Ephraim on his right 
hand, that is, towards the left 
hand of Israel ; but Manasses 
on his left hand, to wit, towards 
his father's right hand, and 
brought them near to him. But 
he stretching forth his right 
hand, put it upon the head of 
Ephraim the younger brother ; 
and the left upon the head of 
Manasses who was the elder, 
changing his hands. And Jacob 
blessed the sons of Joseph, and 
said: God, in whose sight my 
fathers Abraham and Isaac 
walked, God that feedeth me 
from m}^ youth until this day ; 
the angel that delivereth me 
from all evils, bless these boys : 
and let m}^ name be called upon 



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them, and the names of m}^ 
fathers Abraham, and Isaac, 
and may they grow into a mul- 
titude upon the earth. And 
Joseph seeing that his father 
had put his right hand upon 
the head of Ephraim, was much 
displeased : and taking his fa- 
ther's hand he tried to lift it 
from Ephraim's head, and to 
remove it to the head of Manas- 



ses. And he said to his father : 
It should not be so, my father : 
for this is the tirst-born, put thy 
right hand upon his head. But 
he refusing, said : I know, my 
son, I know : and this also shall 
become peoples, and shall be 
multiplied : but this younger 
brother shall be greater than 
he : and his seed shall grow into 
nations. 



LESSON ELEVENTH. 



ON THE CHURCH. 



Q. Wliioh are the means in- 
stituted by our Lord to en- 
able men at all times to 
share in the fruits of the Re- 
demption ? 

See " L. of C," p. 127, Nos. 26, 27. 

(James 2.) My brethren, have 
not the faith of our Lord Jesus 
Christ of glory with respect of 
persons. For if there shall 
come into your assembly a man 
having a golden ring, in fine 
apparel, and there shall come 
in also a poor man in mean at- 
tire, and you have respect to 
him that is clothed with the fine 
apparel, and shall say to him : 
Sit til on here w^ell ; but say to 
the poor man : Stand thou 
there, or sit under my footstool : 
do you not judge within your- 
selves, and are become judges 
of unjust thoughts? Hearken, 
m}'- dearest brethren : hath not 
God chosen the poor in this 
world, rich in faith, and heirs 
of the kingdom which God hath 



promised to them that love 
him? But you have dishon- 
oured the poor man. Do not 
the rich oppress 3'ou by might? 
and do not they draw you be- 
fore the judgment-seats? Do 
not they blaspheme the good 
name that is invoked upon you? 
If then 3^ou fulfil the royal law, 
according to the scriptures, 
Thou shall love thy neighbour 
as thyself; you do well. But 
if you have respect to persons, 
you commit sin, being reproved 
by the law as transgressors. 

(Gen. 25. A. M. 2148.) Isaac 
besought the Lord for his wife, 
because she was barren ; and he 
heard him, and made Rebecca 
to conceive. But the children 
struggled in her w^omb : and she 
said: If it were to be so with 
me, w^hat need was there to 
conceive? And she went to 
consult the Lord. And he an- 
swering said : Two nations are 
in thy womb, and two peoples 



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shall be divided out of thy 
womb, and one people shall 
overcome the other, and the 
elder shall serve the younger. 
And when her time was come 
to be delivered, behold twins 
were found in her womb. And 
when they were grown up, 
Esau became a skilful hunter, 
and a husbandnaan : but Jacob 
a plain man dwelt in tents. 
Isaac loved Esau, because he 
eat of his hunting : and Rebecca 
loved Jacob. And Jacob boiled 
pottage : to whom Esau, coming 
faint out of the field, said : Give 
me of this red pottage, for I am 
exceeding faint. For which 
reason his name was called 
Edom. And Jacob said to him : 
Sell me thy first birth-right. 
He answered : Lo I die, what 
will the first birth-right avail 
me. Jacob said : Swear there- 
fore to me. Esau swore to 
him, and sold his first birth- 
right. And so taking bread 
and the pottage of lentils, he ate, 
and drank, and went his way ; 
making little account of having 
sold his first birth-right. 

Q. WTiat is the Church ? 

See '' L. of C," p. 18, No. 2; p. 40, No. 36. 

(Ezek. 47. A. M. 3430.) An 
angel brought me again to 
the gate of the house, and be- 
hold waters issued out from un- 
der the threshold of the house, 
towards the east : and when the 
man that had the line in his 
hand went out towards the east, 
he measured a thousand cubits : 
and he brought me through the 
water up to the ankles. And 



again he measured a thousand, 
and he brought me through the 
water up to the knees. And he 
measured a thousand, and he 
brought me through the water 
up to the loins. And he meas- 
ured a thousand, and it was a 
torrent, which I could not pass 
over : for the waters were risen 
so as to make a deep torrent, 
which could not be passed over. 
And he said to me : These wa- 
ters that issue forth toward the 
hillocks of sand to the east, and 
go down to the plains of the 
desert, shall go into the sea, and 
shall go out, and the water 
shall be healed. And every 
living creature that creepeth 
whithersoever the torrent shall 
come, shall live : and there shall 
be fishes in abundance after 
these waters shall come thither, 
and they shall be healed, and 
all things shall live to which 
the torrent shall come. And 
the fishers shall stand over 
these waters^ from Engaddi 
even to Engallim there shall be 
drj'ing of nets : there shall be 
man}^ sorts of the fishes thereof, 
as the fishes of the great sea, a 
very great multitude: but on 
the shore thereof, and in the 
fennj'^ places they shall not be 
healed, because the}' shall be 
turned into salt-[)its. And by 
the torrent on the banks thereof 
on both sides shall grow all 
trees that bear fruit : their leaf 
shall not fall oflT, and their fruit 
shall not fail : every month 
shall they bring forth first- 
fruits, because the waters 
thereof shall issue out of the 



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sanctuary : and the fruits 
thereof shall be for food, and the 
leaves thereof for medicine. 

Q. Who is the invisible Head 
of the Church? 

See "L. of (J.,"p. 62, No. 21. 

(Eph. 1.) Now therefore 
you are no more strangers and 
foreigners : but you are fellow- 
citizens w4th the saints, and the 
domestics of God, built upon 
the foundation of the apostles 
and prophets, Jesus Christ him- 
self being tiie chief corner-stone : 
in whom all the building, being 
framed together, groweth up 
into an holy temple in the Lord. 
In whom you also are built to- 
gether, into an habitation of 
God in the Spirit. 

Q. "Who is the visible Head 

of the Church ? 
See "L. of C," p. 24, No. 9; p. 50, No. 10. 

(lY. Kings 25. A. M. 3414.) 
It came to pass in the ninth year 
of his reign, in the tenth month, 
the tentli day of the month, 
that Nabuchodonosor king of 
Babylon came, he and all his 
army against Jerusalem : and 
the^^ surrounded it : and raised 
works round about it. And the 
city was shut up and besieged 
till the eleventh year of king 
Sedecias. The ninth day of 
the month : and a famine pre- 
vailed in the city, and there was 
no bread for the people of the 
land. And a breach was made 
into tlie city : and all the men 
of war fled in the niglit between 
the two walls by tlie king's 
garden (now the Chaldees be- 
sieged tlie city round about,) 



and Sedecias fled b^^ the way 
that leadeth to the plains of 
the wilderness. And the army 
of the Chaldees pursued after 
the king, and overtook him in 
tiie plains of Jericho: and all 
the warriors that were with 
him were scattered, and left him : 
so they took the king, and 
brought him to the king of 
Babylon to Reblatha, and he 
gavejudgment upon him. And 
he slew the sons of Sedecias be- 
fore his face, and he put out his 
e^'es, and bound him with 
chains, and brought him to 
Babylon. 

Q. Why is the Pope, the 

Bishop of Rome, the visible 

Head of the Church ? 

See ''L. of C," p. 102. No. 8; p. 123, Nos. 
11, 12. 

(Apoc. 4.) In the sight of 
the throne was, as it were, a sea 
of glass like to cr^^stal ; and in 
the midst of the throne, and 
round about the throne, were 
four living creatures, full of 
eyes before and behind. And 
the first living creature was like 
a lion ; and the second living 
creature like a calf: and the 
third living creature, having 
the face, as it were, of a man ; 
and the fourth living creature 
was like an eagle flying. 

Q. "Who are the successors 
of the other Apostles ? 

See "L. of C," p. 30. No. 5; p. 54, No. 5; p. 
94, No. 39. 

(Acts 19. A. D. 56.) Now 
some also of the Jewish exor- 
cists who went about, attempted 
to invoke over them that had 
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Jesns, saying: I conjure you 
by Jesus, whom Paul preach- 
etli. And there were certain 
men, seven sons of Sceva, a 
Jew, a chief priest, that did 
this. But the wicked spirit, 
answering, said to them : Jesus 
1 know, and Paul I know ; but 
who are you ? And the man in 
who.n the wicked spirit was, 
leaping upon them, and master- 
ing them both, prevailed against 
them, so that they fled out of 
that house naked and wounded. 
And this became known to all 
the Jews and the gentiles that 
dwelt at Ephesus ; and fear fell 
on them all, and the name of 
the Lord Jesus was magnified. 
And many of them that be- 
lieved, came confessing and de- 
claring their deeds. 

(I. Cor. 1.) See your voca- 
tion, brethren, that there are 
not many wise according to 
the flesh, not many mighty, 
not many noble; but the fool- 
ish things of the world bath 
God chosen, that he may con- 
found the wise ; and the weak 
things of the world hath God 
chosen, that he may confound 
the strong. And the base things 
of the world, and the things 
that are contemptible hath God 
chosen, and things that are not, 
that he might bring to nought 
things that are : that no flesh 
should glory in his sight. 

(Ezek. 1. A. M. 8400.) I 
saw, and behold a whirlwind 
came out of the north : and a 
great cloud, and a fire infolding 
z7, and brightness was about. 
(And in the midst thereof the 



likeness of four living crea- 
tures : and this was their ap- 
pearance : there was the like- 
ness of a man in them. Every 
one had four faces, and ever}'' 
one four wings. And the wings 
of one were joined to the winirs 
of another. They turned not 
when the}^ went : but every one 
went straight forward. And as 
for the likeness of their faces : 
there was the face of a man, 
and the face of a lion on the 
right side of all the four: and 
the face of an ox, on the left 
side of all the four : and the 
face of an eagle over all the 
four. And their faces, and their 
wings were stretched upward : 
two wings of every one were 
joined, and two covered their 
bodies : and every one of them 
went straight forward : whither 
the impulse of the spirit was to 
go, thither they went : and they 
turned not when they went.) 

Q. "Wh-Y did Christ found 
the Church ? 

See " L. of C," p. 25, No. 12. 

(Gen. 27. A. M. 2245.) Now 
Isaac was old, and his eyes 
were dim, and he could not see : 
and he called Esau his elder 
son, and said to him : Take thy 
arms, thy quiver, and bow, and 
go abroad : and when thou hast 
taken some thing by hunting, 
make me savouiy meat thereof, 
as thou knowest I like, and 
bring it, that I may eat : and 
ray soul may bless thee before 
I die. And when Rebecca had 
heard this, and he was gone 
into the field to fulfil his father's 



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commandment, she said to her 
son Jacob : now, therefore, my 
son, follow my counsel : and go 
thy way to the flock, bring me 
two kids of the best, that I may 
make of them meat for thy 
father, such as he gladly eat- 
eth : which when thou hast 
brought in, and he hath eaten, 
he may bless thee before he die. 
And she put on him very good 
garments of Esau, which she 
had at home with her : and the 
little skins of the kids she put 
about his hands, and covered 
the bare of his neck. And she 
gave him the savoury meat, 
and delivered him bread that 
she had baked. Which when he 
had carried in, he said: my 
father? But he answered: I 
hear. Who art thou, my son? 
And Jacob said : I am Esau 
tliy first-born : I have done as 
thou didst command me : arise, 
sit, and eat of my vension, that 
thy soul may bless me. He 
came near, and kissed him. 
And immediately as he smelled 
the fragrant smell of his gar- 
ments, blessing him, he said : 
}3ehold the smell of my son is 
as the smell of a plentiful field, 
which the Lord hath blessed. 
God give thee the dew of heav- 
en, and of the fatness of the 
earth, abundance of corn and 
wine. And let peoples serve 
thee, and tribes worship thee : 
be thou lord of thy brethren, 
and let thy mother's children 
bow down before thee. Cursed 
be he that curseth thee : and 
let him that blesseth tbee be 
filled with blessings. Isaac had 



scarce ended his words, when 
Jacob being now gone out 
abroad, Esau came, and he 
said : Thy brother came de- 
ceitfully and got thy blessing. 
And Esau said to him : Hast 
thou only one blessing, father ? 
I beseech thee bless me also. 
And when he wept with a loud 
cry, Isaac being moved, said to 
him: In the fat of the earth, 
and in the dew of heaven from 
above, shall thy blessing be. 
Thou shalt live by the sword 
and shalt serve thy brother : 
and the time shall come, w^hen 
thou shalt shake off and loose 
his yoke from thy neck. 

(Josh. 6. A. M. 2553.) Now 
Jericho was close shut up and 
fenced, for fear of the children 
of Israel, and no man durst go 
out or come in. And the Lord 
said to Josue : Behold I have 
given into thy hands Jericho, 
and the king thereof, and all the 
valiant men. Go round about 
the city all ye fighting men 
once a day : so shall ye do for 
six days. And on the seventh 
day the priests shall take the 
seven trumpets, which are used 
in the jubilee, and shall go be- 
fore the ark of the covenant : 
and you shall go about the oity 
seven times, and the priests 
shall sound the trumpets. And 
when the voice of the trumpet 
shall give a longer and broken 
tune, and shall sound in your 
ears, all the people shall shout 
together with a very great 
shout, and the walls of the city 
shall fall to the ground, and 
they shall enter in every one at 



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the place against which they 
shall stand. So they did six 
days. And when in the seventh 
going about the priests sounded 
with the trumpets, Josue said 
to all Israel : Shout : for' the 
Lord hath delivered the city to 
you : so all the people making 
a shout, and the trumpets 
sounding, when the voice and 
the sound thundered in the ears 
of the multitude, the w^alls 
forthwith fell down : and every 
man went up by the place that 
was over-against him : and they 
took the city. At that time, 
Josue made an imprecation, 
saying : Cursed be tlie man be- 
fore the Lord, that shall raise 
up and build the city of Jericho. 

Q. Are all bound to belong 
to the Church ? 

See "L. of C," p. 34, No. 21; p. 39, No. 34; 
p. 40, No. 35. 

(Num. 16. A.M. 2535.) Core 
the son of Isaar, the son of 
Caath, the son of Levi, and Da- 
than and Abiron the sons of 
Eliab, and Hon the son of Phel- 
eth of the children of Ruben, 
rose up against Moses, and 
with them two hundred and 
fifty others of the children of 
Israel, leading men of the syna- 
gogue, and who in the time of 
assembly were called by name. 
And when they had stood up 
against Moses and Aaron, they 
said : Let it be enough for you, 
that all the multitude consist- 
eth of holy ones, and the Lord 
is among them : Why lift 3^ou 
up yourselves above tiie people 
of the Lord ? Then Moses sent 
to call Dathan and Abiron the 



sons of Eliab. But they an- 
swered : We will not come. Is 
it a small matter to thee, that 
thou hast brought us out of a 
land that flowed with milk and 
honey, to kill us in the desert, 
except thou rule also like a 
lord over us? And the Lord 
said to Moses : Command the 
whole people to separate them- 
selves from the tents of Core 
and Dathan and Abiron. And 
Moses arose, and went to Da- 
than and Abiron : and the an- 
cients of Israel following him, 
he said to the multitude : De- 
part from the tents of these 
wicked men, and touch nothing 
of theirs, lest you be involved 
in their sins. And when they 
were departed from their tents 
round about, Dathan and Abi- 
ron coming out stood in the en- 
try of their pavilions with their 
wives and children, and all the 
people. And immediately the 
earth broke asunder under their 
feet: and opening her mouth, 
devoured them with their tents 
and all their substance. And 
they went down alive into hell, 
the ground closing upon them, 
and the}^ perished from among 
the people. The following day 
all the multitude of the chil- 
dren of Israel murmured against 
Moses and Aaron, saying : 
You have killed the people of 
the Lord. And when there 
arose a sedition, and the tumult 
increased, Moses and Aaron 
fled to the tabernacle of the 
covenant. And the Lord said 
to Moses : Get you out from 
the midst of this multitude, this 



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moment will I destroy them. 
And as they were lying on the 
ground, Moses said to Aaron : 
Take the censer, and putting 
fire in it from the altar, put in- 
cense upon it, and go quicl^ly 
to the people to pray for them : 
for already wrath is gone out 
from the Lord, and the plague 
rageth. When Aaron had done 
this, and had run to the midst 
of the multitude which the 
burning fire was now destroy- 



ing, 



he offered the incense 



and standing between the dead 
and the living, he prayed for the 
people, and the plague ceased. 

(Deut. 12.) Beware lest thou 
offer thy holocausts in every 
place that thou shalt see : but 
in the place which the Lord 
shall choose in one of thy tribes 
shalt thou offer sacrifices, and 
shalt do all that I command 
thee. Thou mayst not eat in 
thy towns the tithes of thy 
corn, and thy wine, and thy oil, 
the first-born of thy herds and 
thy cattle, nor any thing that 
thou vowest, and that thou wilt 
offer voluntarily, and the first 
fruits of thy hands : but thou 
shalt eat them before the Lord 
thy God in the place which the 
Lord thy God shall choose, 
thou and th}^ son and thy 
daughter, and thy man-servant, 
and maid-servant, and the 
Levite that dwelleth in thy 
cities : and thou shalt rejoice 
and be refreshed before the 
Lord thy God in all things, 
whereunto thou shalt put thy 
hand. 

(IL Pari. 26. A. M. 3194.) 



Ozias was sixteen years old 
when he began to reign. And 
he sought the Lord in the days 
of Zacharias that understood 
and saw God : and as long as 
he sought the Lord, he directed 
him in all thinsfs. But when he 
was made strong, his heart was 
lifted up to his destruction, and 
he neglected the Lord his God : 
and going into the temple of 
the Lord, he had a mind to 
burn incense upon the altar of 
incense. And immediately Aza- 
rias the priest going in after 
him, and with him fourscore 
priests of the Lord, most val- 
iant men, withstood the king 
and said : It doth not belong to 
thee, Ozias, to burn incense to 
the Lord, but to the priests, 
that is, to the sons of Aaron, 
who are consecrated for this 
ministry : go out of the sanc- 
tuary^, do not despise: for this 
thing shall not be accounted to 
thy glory by the Lord God. 
And Ozias was angry, and 
holding in his hand the censer 
to burn incense, threatened the 
priests. And presently there 
rose a leprosy in his forehead 
before the priests, in the house 
of the Lord at the altar of in- 
cense. And Ozias the king was 
a leper unto the day of his 
death, and he dwelt in a house 
apart being full of the leprosy, 
for which he had been cast out 
of the house of the Lord. 

(Isa. 2. A. M. 3219.) The 
word that Isaias the son of 
Amos saw, concerning Juda 
and Jerusalem. And in the 
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house of the Lord shall be pre- 
pared on the top of mountains, 
and it shall be exalted above 
the hills, and all nations shall 
flow unto it. And many people 
shall go, and say: Come and 
let us go up to the mountain of 
the Lord, and to the house of 
the God of Jacob, and he will 
teach us his waj^s, and we will 
walk in his paths : for the law 



shall come forth from Sion,and 
the word of the Lord from 
Jerusalem. And he shall judge 
the Gentiles, and rebuke many 
people : and they sball turn 
their swords into plough-shares, 
and their spears into sickles: 
nation shall not lift up sword 
against nation, neither shall 
they be exercised any more to 
war. 



LESSO]^ TWELFTH. 



ON THE ATTRIBUTES AND MARKS OF THE CHURCH. 



Q. Which are the attributes 
of the Church ? 

(Matt. 28.) Jesus coming, 
spoke to them, saying : All 
power is given to me in heaven 
and in earth. Going therefore, 
teach ye all nations ; baptizing 
them in the name of the Fa- 
ther, and of the Son, and of the 
Holy Ghost. Teaching them 
to observe all things whatso- 
ever I have commanded you : 
and behold I am with you all 
days, even to the consumma- 
tion of the world. 

Q. 'What do you mean by the 
authority of the Church ? 

See " L. of C," p. 114, No. 6. 
(Deut. 17.) If thou perceive 
that there be among you a 
hard and doubtful matter in 
judgment between blood and 
blood, cause and cause, leprosy 
and leprosy : and thou see that 
the words of the j udges within 
thy gates do vary : arise, and 
go up to the place, which the 



Lord thy God shall choose. And 
thou shalt come to the priests 
of the Levitical race, and to 
the judge, that shall be at that 
time : and thou shalt ask of 
them, and they shal} shew thee 
the truth of the judgment. And 
thou shalt do whatsoever they 
shall say, that preside in the 
place, which the Lord shall 
choose, and what they shall 
teach thee, according to his 
law ; and thou shalt follow their 
sentence: neither shalt thou 
decline to the right hand nor 
to the left hand. But he that 
will be proud, and refuse to 
obey the commandment of the 
priest, who ministereth at that 
time to the Lord thy God, and 
the decree of the judge, that 
man shall die, and thou shalt 
take away the evil from Israel. 

Q. ^What do you mean by the 
infallibility of the Church ? 

See '• L of C," p. 50, No. 10. 

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write to thee, hoping that I 
shall come to thee shortly. But 
if I tarry long, that thou ma}^- 
est know how thou oughtest to 
behave thyself in the house of 
God, which is the church of the 
living God, the pillar and 
ground of the truth. 

(III. Kings 7. A. M. 3000.) 
Solomon set up the two pillars 
in the porch of the temple : and 
when he had set up tlie pillar 
on the right hand, he called 
the name thereof Jachin : in 
like manner he set up tlie 
second pillar, and called the 
name thereof Booz. 

Q. "When does the Church 
teach infallibly ? 

See ''L. of C," p. 106, No. 11. 

Q. What do you mean by 
the indefectibility of the 
Church? 

(II. Kings 7. A. M. 2960.) 
When thy days shall be ful- 
filled, and thou shalt sleep with 
thy fathers, I will raise up thy 
seed after thee, which shall pro- 
ceed out of thy bowels, and I 
will establish his kingdom. He 
shall build a house to my name, 
and I will establish the throne 
of his kingdom for ever. I 
will be to him a father, and he 
shall be to me a son : and thy 
house shall be faithful, and thy 
kingdom for ever before thy 
face, and thy throne shall be 
firm for ever. 

(lY. Kings 6. A. M. 3116.) 
The servant of the man of God 
rising early, went out, and saw 
an army round about the city, 
and horses and chariots : and 



he told him, saying : Alas, alas, 
alas, my lord, what shall we 
do? But he answered: fear 
not : for there are more with 
us than with them. And 
Eliseus prayed, and said : Lord, 
open his eyes, that he ma}^ see. 
And the Lord opened the eyes 
of the servant, and he saw : 
and behold the mountain was 
full of horses, and chariots of 
fire round about Eliseus. And 
the enemies came down to him, 
but Eliseus prayed to the Lord, 
sa^nng : Strike, I beseech thee, 
this people with blindness. And 
the Lord struck them with 
blindness, according to the 
word of Eliseus. And Eliseus 
said to them : This is not the 
wa}^ neither is this the city : 
follow me, and I will shew you 
the man whom you seek. So 
he led them into Samaria. And 
a great provision of meats was 
set before them, and they eat 
and drank, and he let them go, 
and they went away to their 
master, and the robbers of 
Syria came no more into the 
land of Israel. 

(Jer. 31. A.M. 3406.) Behold 
the da3^s shall come, saith the 
Lord, and I will make a new 
covenant with the house of 
Israel, and the house of Juda : 
not according to the cov- 
enant which I made with their 
fathers, in the day that I took 
them by the hand to bring 
them out of* the land of Egypt : 
the covenant which they made 
void, and I had dominion over 
them, saith the Lord. But 
this shall be the covenant, that 



CATECHISM. 



I will make with the house of 
Israel, after those days, saith 
the Lord : I will give my law 
in their bowels, and I will write 
it in their heart : and I will be 
their God, and they shall be 
my people. If these ordi- 
nances shall fail before me, 
saith the Lord : then also the 
seed of Israel shall fail, so as 
not to be a nation before me 
for ever. 

Q. In Tvhom are these at- 
tributes found in their ful- 
ness? 

(Dan. 2. A. M. 340L) In 
the second year of the reign of 
Nabuchodonosor, Nabuchodon- 
oser had a dream, and his spirit 
was terrified, and his dream 
went out of his mind. Then 
the king commanded to call to- 
gether the diviners and the 
wise men, and the magicians, 
and the Chaldeans : to declare 
to the king his dreams : so they 
came and stood before the king. 
And the king said to them : I 
saw a dream : and being 
troubled in mind I know not 
what I saw. The thing is gone 
out of my mind : unless you 
tell me the dream, and the 
meaning thereof, you shall be 
put to death, and your houses 
shall be confiscated. But if 
3^ou tell the dream, and the 
meaning of it, you shall receive 
of me rewards, and gifts, and 
great honour : therefore tell 
me the dream, and the interpre- 
tation thereof. Then the Chal- 
deans answered before the king, 
and said : The thing that thou 



askest, king, is difficult : nor 
can any one be found that can 
shew it before the king, except 
the gods, whose conversation is 
not with men. Upon hearing 
this, the king in fury, and in 
great wrath, commanded that 
all the wise men of Babylon 
should be put to death. And 
the decree being gone forth, the 
wise men were slain : and Dan- 
iel and his companions were 
sought for, to be put to death. 
Then was the mystery revealed 
to Daniel by a vision in the 
night : and Daniel blessed the 
God of heaven. Then Arioch 
in haste brought in Daniel to 
the king, and said to him: I 
have found a man of the chil- 
dren of the captivity of Juda, 
that will resolve the question to 
the king. The king answered, 
and said to Daniel, whose name 
was Baltassar : Thinkest thou 
indeed that thou canst tell me 
the dream that I saw, and the 
interpretation thereof ? And 
Daniel made answer before the 
king, and said: Thou, O king, 
sawest, and behold there was 
as it were a great statue : this 
statue, which was great and 
high, tall of stature, stood be- 
fore thee, and the look thereof 
was terrible. The head of this 
statue was of fine gold, but the 
breast and the arms of silver, 
and the belly and the thighs of 
brass : and the legs of iron, the 
feet part of iron and part of 
clay. Thus thou sawest, till a 
stone was cut out of a moun- 
tain without hands : and it 
struck the statue upon the feet 



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thereof that were of iron and 
of clay, and broke them in 
pieces ; but the stone that 
struck the statue, became a 
great mountain, and filled the 
whole earth. This is the dream : 
we will also tell the interpreta- 
tion thereof before thee, king. 
Thou art a king of kings : and 
the God of heaven hath given 
thee a kingdom, and strength, 
and power, and glory : thou 
therefore art the head of gold. 
And after thee shall rise up an- 
other kingdom, inferior to thee, 
of silver : and another third 
kingdom of brass, which shall 
rule over all the world. And 
the fourth kingdom shall be as 
iron. As iron breaketh into 
pieces, and subdueth all things, 
so shall that break and destroy 
all these. And whereas thou 
sawest the feet, and the toes, 
part of potter's clay, and part 
of iron : the kingdom shall be 
divided. But in the days of 
those kingdoms the God of 
heaven will set up a kingdom 
that shall never be destroyed, 
and his kingdom shall not be 
delivered up to another people, 
and it shall break in pieces, 
and shall consume all these 
kingdoms, and itself shall stand 
for ever. Then the king ad- 
vanced Daniel to a high station, 
and gave him many and great 
gifts : and he made him gov- 
ernor over all the provinces of 
Babylon, and chief of the mag- 
istrates OA^er all the wise men 
of Babylon. 

Q. Has the Church any ma-rksi 
by -which it may bo known? 



(Eph. 4.) I therefore, a 
prisoner in the Lord, beseech 
you that you walk worthy of 
the vocation in which you are 
called, with all humility and 
mildness, with patience, sup- 
porting one another in charity. 
Careful to keep the unity of 
the Spirit in the bond of peace. 
One body and one Spirit ; as 
you are called in one hope of 
your calling. One Lord, one 
faith, one baptism. One God 
and Father of all, who is above 
all, and through all, and in us 
all. But to every one of us is 
given grace, according to the 
measure of the giving of Christ. 

Q. How is the Church One ? 

See " L of C," P- 37, No. 28; p. 48, No. 4 ; 
p. 53, No. 17. 

Q. How is the Church Holy ? 
(I. Peter 1.) Wherefore hav- 
ing the loins of your mind girt 
up, being sober, trust perfectly 
in the grace which is offered 
3'ou in the revelation of Jesus 
Christ, as children of obe- 
dience, not fashioned according 
to the former desires of yowY 
ignorance : but according to 
him that hath called you, who 
is Holy, be you also in all man- 
ner of conversation holy : be- 
cause it is written : You shall 
he holy ^ for I am holy, 

Q. How is the Church Cath- 
olic or universal ? 

See "L. of C," p. 69, No. 39. 

(Zach. 2. A. M. 3485.) I 
lifted up my ej^es, and saw, and 
behold a man, with a measur- 
ing line in his hand. And I 
said : Whither croest thou ? and 



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he said to me: To measure 
Jerusalem, and to see how great 
is the breadtli thereof, and how 
great the length thereof. And 
behold the Angel that spoke in 
me went forth, and another An- 
gel went out to meet him. And 
he said to him : Run, speak to 
this young man, saying : Jeru- 
salem shall be inhabited with- 
out walls, by reason of the mul- 
titude of men, and of the beasts 
in the midst thereof. And I will 
be to it, saith the Lord, a wall 
of fire round about : and I will 
be in glory in the midst thereof. 

Q. Ho-w is the Church Apos- 
tolic ? 

See"L. of C.,"p.ll7, No. 9. 

Q. In -which Church are these 
attributes and marks found? 

See "L. of C," p. 124, No. 17. 

(Gal. 1.) Though we, or 
an angel from heaven, preach a 
gospel to you besides that 
which we have preached to you, 
let him be anathema. As we 
said before, so now I say again : 
If any one i^reach to you a gos- 
pel, besides that which you 
have received, let him be anath- 
ema. 

Q. From whom does the 
Church derive its undying* 
life and infallible authority? 

(Acts 5. A. D. 33.) When 
they had brought them, they 
set them before the council. 
And the high priest asked 
them, saying : Commanding 
we commanded you, that you 
should not teach in this name ; 
and behold, you have filled 



Jerusalem with your doctrine, 
and you have a mind to bring 
the blood of this man upon us. 
But Peter and the apostles an- 
swering, said : We ought to 
obey Grod, rather than men. 
But one in the council rising 
up, a Pharisee, named Gam- 
aliel, a doctor of the law re- 
spected by all the people, com- 
manded the men to be put forth 
a little while. And he said to 
them : Ye men of Israel, take 
heed to yourselves what you 
intend to do, as touching these 
men. And now, therefore, I 
say to you, refrain from these 
men, and let them alone ; for if 
this council or this work be of 
men, it will come to naught : 
but if it be of God, you cannot 
overthrow it, lest perhaps you 
be found even to fight against 
God. And they consented to 
him. 

(Isa. 64.) Fear not, for 
thou shalt not be confounded, 
nor blush : for thou shalt 
not be put to shame. For 
he that made thee shall 
rule over thee, the Lord of 
hosts is his name : and thy Re- 
deemer, the holy one of Israel, 
shall be called the God of all 
the earth. For the mountains 
shall be moved, and the hills 
shall tremble ; but my mercy 
shall not depart from thee, and 
the covenant of my peace shall 
not be moved : said the Lord 
that hath mercy on thee. O 
poor little one, tossed with 
tempest, without all com- 
fort, behold I will lay thy 
stones in order, and will lay 



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tby foundations with sapphires, 
and I will make thy bulwarks 
of jasper : and thy gates of 
graven stones, and all thy bor- 
ders of desirable stones. All 
thy children shall he taught of 
the Lord : and great shall be 
the peace of tby children. And 
thou shalt be founded in jus- 
tice : depart far from oppres- 
sion, for thou shalt not fear ; 
and from terror, for it shall not 
come near thee. No weapon 
that is formed against thee 
shall prosper : and every tongue 
that resisteth thee in judgment, 
thou shalt condemn. This is 
the inheritance of the servants 
of tlie Lord, and their justice 
with me, saith the Lord. 

Q. By -whom is the Church 
made and. kept One, Holy, 
and Catholic ? 

(Judg. 7. A. M. 2759.) The 
Lord said to Gedeon : The peo- 
ple that are with thee are 
many, and Madian shall not be 
delivered into their hands : lest 
Israel should glorj^ against me, 
and say : I was delivered b}^ 
my own strength. Speak to 
the people, and proclaim in the 
hearing of all, Whosoever is 



fearful and timorous let him 
return. So two and twenty 
thousand men went away from 
mount Galaad and returned 
home, and only ten thousand 
remained. And the Lord said 
to Gedeon : The people are 
still too many, bring them to 
the waters, and there I will 
try them : and of whom I shall 
say to thee. This shall go with 
thee, let him go : whom I shall 
forbid to go, let him return. 
And when the people were 
come down to the waters, the 
Lord said to Gedeon : They 
that shall lap the water with 
their tongues, as dogs are wont 
to lap, thou shalt set apart by 
themselves : but they that 
shall drink bowing down their 
knees, shall be on the other 
side. And the number of them 
that had lapped water, casting 
it with the hand to their mouth, 
was three hundred men : and all 
the rest of the multitude had 
drunk kneeling. And the Lord 
said to Gedeon : By the three 
hundred men, that lapped 
water, I will save you, and de- 
liver Madian into thy hand : 
but let all the rest of the people 
return to their place. 



LESSON THIRTEENTH. 



ON THE SACRAMENTS IN GENERAL. 



Q. "What is a Sacrament ? 

(Num. 35. A. M. 2553.-) The 
Lord spoke these things also to 
Moses in the plains of Moab by 



the Jordan, over-against Jer- 
icho : Command the children 
of Israel that they give to the 
Levites out of their possessions, 



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cities to dwell in, and their sub- 
urbs round about : that thej^ 
may abide in the towns, and 
the suburbs may be for their 
cattle and beasts : and among 
the cities, which you shall give 
to the Levites, seven shall be 
separated for refuge to fugi- 
tives, that he who hath shed 
blood may flee to them : and be- 
sides these there shall be other 
forty-two cities, and when the 
fugitive shall be in them, the 
kinsman of him that is slain 
may not have power to kill 
him, until he stand before the 
multitude, and his cause be 
judged. And of those cities, 
that are separated for the 
refuge of fugitives, three shall 
be beyond the Jordan, and three 
in the land of Chanaan,as well 
for the children of Israel as for 
strangers and sojourners, that 
he may flee to them, who hath 
shed blood against his will. 

Q. How many Sacraments 
are there ? 

(Gen. 17. A. M. 2093.) This 
is my covenant which 3^ou shall 
observe, between me and you, 
and thy seed after thee: All 
the male kind of you shall be 
circumcised : an infant of 
eight days old shall be circum- 
cised among you, ^y^vy man 
child in your generations : he 
that is born in the house, as 
well as the bought servant shall 
be circumcised, and whosoever 
is not of your stock : and my 
covenant shall be in your flesh 
for a perpetual covenant. The 
male, who shall not be circum- 



cised, that soul shall be de- 
stroyed out of his people : be- 
cause he hath broken my cov- 
enant. 

(Lev. 12. A.M. 2514.) The 
Lord spoke to Moses, saying : 
Speak to the children of Israel, 
and thou shall say to them : If 
a woman shall bear a man-child, 
she shall be unclean seven days. 
But if she shall bear a maid- 
child, she shall be unclean two 
weeks, and when the days of 
her purification are expired, for 
a son, or for a daughter, she 
shall bring to the door of the 
tabernacle of the testimony, a 
lamb of a year old for a holo- 
caust, and a young pigeon or a 
turtle for sin, and shall deliver 
them to the priest : who shall 
offer them before the Lord, and 
shall pray for her, and so she 
shall be cleansed from the issue 
of her blood. This is the law 
for her that beareth a man-child 
or a maid-child. And if her 
hand find not suflSciency, and 
she is not able to offer a lamb, 
she shall take two turtles, or 
two young pigeons, one for a 
holocaust, and another for sin : 
and the priest shall pray for 
her, and so she shall be cleansed. 

(Ex. 12. A. M. 2513.) The 
Lord said to Moses and Aaron 
in the land of Egypt: Speak ye 
to the whole assembly of the 
children of Israel, and say to 
them : On the tenth day of this 
month let every man take a 
lamb by their families and 
houses. But if the number be 
less than may suflSce to eat the 
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his neighbor that joineth to his 
house, according to the number 
of souls which may be enough 
to eat the lamb. And it shall 
be a lamb without blemish, a 
male, of one year : according to 
which rite also you shall take a 
kid. And you shall keep it 
until the fourteenth day of this 
month : and the whole miilti- 
tude of the children of Israel 
shall sacrifice it in the evening. 
And they shall take of the blood 
thereof, and put it upon both 
the side posts, and on the upper 
door-posts of the houses, where- 
in they shall eat it. And they 
shall eat the flesh that night 
roasted at the fire, and un- 
leavened bread with wild 
lettuce. You shall not eat 
thereof anything raw, nor 
boiled in water, but only 
roasted at the fire: you shall 
eat the head with the feet and 
entrails thereof. Neither shall 
there remain any thing of it un- 
til morning. If there be any 
thing left, you shall burn it 
with fire. And thus you shall 
eat it: you shall gird your 
reins, and you shall have shoes 
on your feet, holding staves in 
your hands, and you shall eat 
in haste : for it is the Phase 
(that is the Passage) of the 
Lord. 

(Ex. 29.) Thou Shalt also 
do this, but they may be con- 
secrated to me in priesthood. 
Thou shalt bring Aaron to the 
door of the tabernacle of the 
testimony. And when thou 
hast washed him with water, 
thou shalt clothe Aaron with 



his vestments, that is, with the 
linen garment and the tunick, 
and the ephod and the rational, 
which thou shalt gird with the 
girdle. And thou shalt put 
the mitre upon his head, and 
the hol}^ plate upon the mitre, 
and thou shalt pour the oil of 
unction upon his head : and by 
this rite shall he be conse- 
crated. 

Q. Whence have the Sacra- 
ments the power of giving 
grace ? 

(Acts 3-4. A. D. 33.) Now 
Peter and John went up into 
the temple at the ninth hour 
of prayer. And a certain man 
who was lame from his mother's 
womb, was carried : whom they 
laid ever}^ da}^ at the gate of 
the temple, which is called 
Beautiful, that he might ask 
alms of them that went into 
the temple. He, when he had 
seen Peter and John about to 
go into the temple, asked to re- 
ceive an alms. But Peter with 
John fastening his eyes upon 
him, said : Look upon us. But 
he looked earnestly upon them, 
hoping that he should receive 
something of them. But Peter 
said : Silver and gold I have 
none ; but what I have, I give 
thee : In the name of Jesus 
Christ of Nazareth, arise, and 
walk. And taking him by the 
right hand, he lifted him up, and 
forthwith his feet and soles re- 
ceived strength. And he leap- 
ing up, stood, and walked, and 
went in with them into the 
temple, walking, and leax)ing, 



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and praising God. And all the 
people saw him walking and 
praising God. And they knew 
him, that it was he who sat 
begging alms at the beautiful 
gate of the temple : and the}^ 
were filled with wonder and 
amazement at that which had 
happened to him. And as he 
held Peter and John, all the 
people ran to them to the porch 
which is called Solomon's, 
greatly wondering. But Peter 
seeing, made answer to the 
people : If we this day are ex- 
amined concerning the good 
deed done to the infirm man, b}^ 
what means he hath been made 
whole : be it known to 3^ou all, 
and to all the people of Israel, 
that by the name of our Lord 
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, 
whom you crucified, whom God 
hath raised from the dead, even 
by him this man standeth here 
before you whole. This is the 
stone which was rejected by you 
the builders, which is become the 
head of the corner. Neither is 
there salvation in any other. 
For there is no other name un- 
der heaven given to men, 
whereby we must be saved. 

Q. What grace do the Sacra- 
ments give ? 

(Acts 16. A. D. 51.) Fpon 
the sabbath-day, we went forth 
without the gate by a river- 
side, where it seemed that there 
was prayer ; and sitting down, 
we spoke to the women that 
were assembled. And a certain 
woman named Lydia, a seller 
of purple, of the city of Tli^-a- 



tira, one that worshipped God, 
did hear : whose heart the Lord 
opened to attend to those 
things which were said by 
Paul. And when she r/as bap- 
tized, and her household, she 
besought us, saying : If you 
have judged me to be faithful 
to the Lord, come into my 
house, and abide there. And 
she constrained us. And it 
came to pass, as we went to 
prayer, a certain girl, having a 
P3^thonical spirit, met us, who 
brought to her masters much 
gain by divining. This same 
following Paul and us, cried 
out, saying : These men are the 
servants of the most high God, 
who preach unto you the way 
of salvation. And this she did 
many days. But Paul being 
grieved, turned, and said to the 
spirit : I command thee, in the 
name of Jesus Christ, to go 
out from her. And he went 
out the same hour. But her 
masters, seeing that the hope 
of their gain was gone, appre- 
hending Paul and Silas, 
brought them into the market- 
place to the rulers. And when 
they had laid many stripes up- 
on them, they cast them into 
prison, charging the gaoler to 
keep them diligently. Who 
having received such a charge, 
thrust them into the inner pris- 
on, and made their feet fast in 
the stocks. And at midnight, 
Paul and Silas praying, praised 
God. And they that were in 
prison, heard them. And sud- 
denly there was a great earth- 
quake, so that the foundations 



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of the prison were shaken. 
And immediately all the doors 
were opened, and the bands of 
all were loosed. And the keep- 
er of the prison, awaking out 
of his sleep, and seeing the 
doors of the prison open, draw- 
ing his sword, would have killed 
himself, supposing that the 
prisoners had been fled. But 
Paul cried with a loud voice, 
saying : Do thyself no harm, 
for we all are here. Then call- 
ing for a light, he went in, and 
trembling, fell down at the feet 
of Paul and Silas. And bring- 
ing them out, he said : Mas- 
ters, what must I do, that I 
may be saved ? But they said : 
Believe in the Lord Jesus, and 
thou shalt be saved, and thy 
house. And they preached the 
word of the Lord to him and to 
all that were in his house. And 
he, taking them the same hour 
of the night, washed their 
stripes, and himself was bap- 
tized, and all his house imme- 
diately. 

Q. "Which are the Sacra- 
ments that give sanctifying 
grace? 

(Acts 9. A. D. 34.) Saul, as 
yet breathing out threatenings 
and slaughter against the dis- 
ciples of the Lord, went to the 
high priest, and asked of him 
letters to Damascus, to the 
sjmagogues: that if he found 
any men and women of this 
way, he might bring them 
bound to Jerusalem. And as 
he went on his journey, it came 
to pass that he drew nigh to 



Damascus ; and suddenly a 
light from heaven shined round 
about him. And falling on the 
ground, he heard a voice saying 
to him : Saul, Saul, wh}^ perse^. 
cutest thou me ? Who said : 
Who art thou, Lord ? And he; 
I am Jesus whom thou perse- 
cutest. It is hard for thee to 
kick against the goad. And he 
trembling and astonished, said : 
Lord, what wilt thou have me 
to do ? And the Lord said to 
him : Arise, and go into the 
city, and there it shall be told 
thee what thou must do. Now 
the men who went in company 
with him, stood amazed, hear- 
ing indeed a voice, but seeing 
no man. And Saul arose from 
the ground ; and when his eyes 
were opened, he saw nothing. 
But they leading him by the 
hands, brought him to Damas- 
cus. And he was there three 
days, without sight, and he did 
neither eat nor drink. Now 
there was a certain disciple at 
Damascus, named Ananias. 
And the Lord said to him in a 
vision : Ananias. And he said : 
Behold I am here. Lord. And 
the Lord said to him : Arise, 
and go into the street that is 
called Strait, and seek in the 
house of Judas, one named Saul 
of Tarsus. For behold he 
prayeth. And Ananias went 
his way, and entered into the 
house. And laying his hands 
upon him, he said : Brother 
Saul, the Lord Jesus hath sent 
me. he that appeared to thee in 
the way as thou earnest ; that 
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and be filled with the Holy 
Ghost. And immediately there 
fell from his eyes as it were 
scales, and he received his 
sight ; and rising up, he was 
baptized. And when many days 
were passed, the Jews consulted 
together to kill him. But their 
laying in wait was made known 
to Saul. And they watched 
the gates also day and night, 
that they might kill him. But 
the disciples taking him in the 
night, conveyed him away by 
the wall, letting him down in a 
basket. 

Q. "Why are Baptism and 
Penance called Sacraments 
of the dead ? 

See •* L. of C," p. 127, No. 26. 

Q. "Which are the Sacra- 
ments that increase sancti- 
fying grace in our soul ? 

(Apoc. 22. A. D. 64.) The 
Angel saith to me : Seal not the 
words of the prophecy of this 
book : for the time is at hand. 
He that hurteth, let him hurt 
still : and he that is filthy, let 
him be filthy still : and he that 
is just, let him be justified 
still : and he that is holy, let 
him be sanctified still. Behold, 
I come quickly ; and my re- 
ward is with me, to render to 
every man according to his 
works. 

Q. Why are Confirmation, 
Holy Eucharist, Extreme 
Unction, Holy Orders, and 
Matrimony called Sacra- 
ments of the living ? 

(Phil. 1.) Grace be unto 
you, and peace from God our 



Father, and from the Lord 
Jesus Christ. I give thanks 
to my God in every remem- 
brance of you, being con- 
fident of this very thing, that 
he, who hath begun a good 
work in you, will perfect it 
unto the day of Christ Jesus. 

Q. "WTiat sin does he com- 
mit -who receives the Sacra- 
ments of the living in mor- 
tal sin ? 

(I. Cor. 11.) Whosoever 
shall eat this bread, or drink 
the chalice of the Lord un- 
worthily, shall be guilty of the 
body and of the blood of the 
Lord. 

Q. Besides sanctifying grace 
do the Sacraments give any 
other grace ? 

(Ps. 22.) The Lord hath 
brought me up, on the water of 
refreshment : he hath converted 
my soul. He hath led me on 
the path of justice, for his own 
name's sake. For though I 
should walk in the midst of the 
shadow of death, I will fear no 
evils, for thou art with me. 
Thy rod and thy staff", they 
have comforted me. Thou hast 
prepared a table before me, 
against them that aflflict me. 
Thou hast anointed my head 
with oil ; and my chalice which 
inebriateth me^ how goodly is 
it 1 And thy mercy will follow 
me all the days of my life. 
And that I may dwell in the 
house of the Lord unto length 
of days. 



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Q. What is sacramental 
grace ? 

(Phil. 1.) I give thanks 
to in}^ God ill every remem- 
brance of you, always in all 
my prayers making supplica- 
tion for you all, with joy. For 
your communication in the 
gospel of Christ from the first 
day until now. Being con- 
fident of this very thing, that 
he, who hath begun a good 
work in you, will perfect it 
unto the day of Christ Jesus. 

Q. Do the Sacraments al- 
"ways give grace ? 

See ''L. of C," p. 34, No. 19; p. 89, No. 

26. 

(Isa. 55.) All you that 
thirst, come to the waters : and 
you that have no money make 
haste, buy, and eat ; come 
ye, buy wine and milk with- 
out money, and without any 
price. Seek ye the Lord, while 
he may be found : call upon 
him, while he is near. Let the 
wicked forsake his w^ay, and 
the unjust man his thoughts, 
and let hira return to the Lord, 
and he will have mercy on him, 
and to our God : for he is 
bountiful to forgive. For 
my thoughts are not your 
thoughts : nor your ways my 
ways, saith the Lord. For as 
the heavens are exalted above 
the earth, so are my ways 
exalted above your ways, and 
my thoughts above your 
thoughts. And as the rain 
and the snow come down from 
heaven, and return no more 
thither, but soak the earth, and 



water it, and make it to spring, 
and give seed to the sower, 
and bread to the eater : so 
shall my word be, which shall 
go forth from my mouth ; it 
shall not return to me void, but 
it shall do whatsoever I please, 
and shall prosper in the things 
for which I sent it. 

Q. Can -we receive the Sacra- 
ments more than once ? 

(Prov. 24.) A just man 
shall fall seven times and shall 
rise again : but the wicked shall 
fall down into evil. 

Q. "Why can "we not receive 
Baptism, Confirmation, and 
Holy Orders more than 
once? 

(Ezek. 9. A. M. 3410.) The 
Lord said to him : Go through 
the midst of the city, through 
the midst of Jerusalem : and 
mark Thau upon the foreheads 
of the men that sigh, and 
mourn for all the abominations 
that are committed in the midst 
thereof. And to the others he 
said in my hearing; Go ye 
after him through the city, and 
strike : let not 3^our eyes spare, 
nor be ye moved with pity. 
Utterly destroy old and young, 
maidens, children and women : 
but upon whomsoever yon shall 
see Thau, kill him not, and be- 
gin ye at my sanctuar3^ 

Q. "What is the character 
-which these Sacraments 
imprint in the soul ? 

(Apoc. 7.) I saw another 
Angel ascending from the ris- 
ing of the sun, having the sign 



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of the living God ; and be cried 
with a loud voice to the four 
Angels, to whom it was given 
to hurt the earth and the sea, 
saying : Hurt not the earth, 
nor the sea, nor the trees, till 
we sisfn the servants of our God 
in their foreheads. 

Q. Does this character re- 
main in the soul even after 
death ? 

(Apoc. 14.) The third Angel 
followed them, saying with a 
loud voice : If any man shall 
adore the beast and his image, 
and receive his character in his 
forehead, or in his hand ; be 



also shall drink of the wine of 
the wrath of God, which is 
mingled with pure wine in the 
cup of his wrath, and shall be 
tormented with tire and brim- 
stone in the sight of the holy 
Angels, and in the sight of the 
Lamb. And the smol^e of their 
torments shall ascend up for 
ever and ever : neither have 
they rest da}^ nor night, who 
have adored the beast, and his 
image, and whoever receiveth 
the character of his name. 

(Heb. 7.) For he testifieth : 
Thou a7't a priest for ever, ac- 
cording to the order of Mel- 
chisedech. 



LESSON FOURTEENTH, 



ON BAPTISM. 



Q. What is Baptism ? 

(Isa. 44.) Fear not, my 
servant Jacob, and thou most 
righteous whom I have chosen. 
For I will pour out waters upon 
the thirsty ground, and streams 
upon the dry land : I will pour 
out my spirit upon thy seed, 
and my blessing upon thy stock. 

(Num. 9. A. M. 2514.) Now 
on the day that the tabernacle 
was reared up, a cloud covered 
it. But from the evening there 
was over the tabernacle, as it 
were, the appearance of fire 
until the morning. So it was 
always : by day the cloud cov- 
ered it, and by night as it were 
the appearance of fire. And 
when the cloud that covered 



the tabernacle was taken up, 
then the children of Israel 
marched forward : and in the 
place where the cloud stood 
still, there they camped. At 
the commandment of the Lord 
they marched, and at his com- 
mandment they pitched the 
tabernacle. All the days that 
the cloud abode over the 
tabernacle, they remained in 
the same place : and if it was 
so that it continued over it a 
long time, the children of Israel 
kept the watches of the Lord, 
and marched not, for as many 
days soever as the cloud staid 
over tlie tabernacle. At the 
commandment of the Lord they 
pitched their tents, and at his 



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commandment they took them 
down. If the cloud tarried from 
evening until morning, and im- 
mediately at break of day left 
the tabernacle, they marched 
forward : and if it departed af- 
ter a day and a night, they 
took down their tents. But if 
it remained over the tabernacle 
for two days or a month or a 
longer time, the children of 
Israel remained in the same 
place, and marched not: but 
immediately as soon as it de- 
parted, the}^ removed the camp. 
By the word of the Lord they 
pitched their tents, and by his 
word they marched : and kept 
the watches of the Lord accord- 
ing to his commandment by the 
hand of Moses. 

Q. Are actual sins ever re- 
mitted by Baptism ? 

(Ezek. 36.) I will pour upon 
you clean water, and you shall 
be cleansed from all your filthi- 
ness, and I will cleanse you 
from all your idols. And will 
give you a new heart, and put 
a new spirit wathin you : and I 
will take away the stony heart 
out of your flesh, had will give 
you a heart of flesh. And I wMll 
put my spirit in the midst of 
you : and I will cause you to 
walk in my commandments, 
and to keep my judgments, and 
do them. And you shall dwell 
in the land which I gave to your 
fathers, and you shall be my 
people, and I will be your God. 

Q. Is Baptism necessary to 
salvation ? 

See "L. of C," p. 11, No. 10; p. 16, No. 4; 
p. 20, No. 3. 



(Ex. 14. A. M. 2513.) The 
Lord hardened the heart of 
Pharao king of Egypt, and he 
pursued the children of Israel ; 
But they were gone forth in a 
mighty hand. And when the 
Egyptians followed the steps of 
them who were gone before, 
they found them encamped at 
the sea side : and the Lord said 
to Moses : Why criest thou to 
me ? Speak to the children of 
Israel to go forward. But lift 
thou up thy rod, and stretch 
forth thy hand over the sea, 
and divide it : that the children 
of Israel may go through the 
midst of the sea on dry ground. 
And when Moses had stretched 
forth his hand over the sea, the 
Lord took it away by a strong 
and burning wind blowing all 
the night, and turned it into 
dry ground : and the water was 
divided. And the children of 
Israel went in through the 
midst of the sea dried up: for 
the water was as a wall on 
their right hand and on their 
left. And the Egyptians pursu- 
ing went in after them, and all 
Pharao's horses, his chariots 
and horsemen through the 
midst of the sea. And when 
Moses had stretched forth his 
hand towards the sea, it re- 
turned at the first break of day 
to the former place : and as the 
Egyptians were fleeing away, 
the waters came upon them, 
and the Lord shut them up in 
the middle of the waves. 

Q. Who can administer Bap- 
tism? 
See *♦ L. of C," p. 17, No. 6; p. 21, No. 4. 



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Q. How is Baptism given ? 

See "L. of C, p." 16, No. 3; p. 48, No. 5. 

Q. How many kinds of Bap- 
tism are there ? 

(I. John 5.) This is he that 
came by water and blood, Jesus 
Christ: not by water only, but 
by water and blood. And it is 
the Spirit which testifieth, that 
Christ is the truth. And there 
are three that give testimony on 
earth : the spirit, and the water, 
and the blood : and these three 
are one. 

Q. "What is Baptism of wa- 
ter? 

See-'L. of C.,"p.28,No. 1. 

Q. "What is Baptism of de- 
sire? 

(Acts 11. A. D. 40.) When 
Peter was come up to Jerusa- 
lem, they that were of the cir- 
cumcision contended with him, 
saying : Why didst thou go into 
men uncircumcised, and didst 
eat with them ? But Peter be- 
gan and declared to them the 
matter in order, saying : I was 
in the city of Joppe praying, 
and I saw in an ecstasy of mind 
a vision, a certain vessel de- 
scending, as it were a great 
sheet let down from heaven by 
four corners, and it came even 
unto me. Into which looking, 
I considered, and saw four- 
footed creatures of the earth, 
and beasts, and creeping things, 
and fowls of the air : and I 
heard also a voice saying to 
me : Arise, Peter : kill and eat. 
And I said : Not so. Lord ; for 
nothing common or unclean 
hath ever entered into my 
6' 



mouth. And the voice answered 
again from heaven : What God 
hatli made clean, do not tliou 
call common. And this was 
done three times : and all were 
taken up again into heaven. 
And behold, immediately there 
were three men come to the 
house wherein I was, sent to 
me from Cesarea. And the 
Spirit said to me, that I should 
go with them, nothing doubt- 
in or. And these six brethren 

CI? 

went with me also : and we en- 
tered into the man's house. And 
he told us how he had seen an 
angel in his house, standing, 
and saying to him : Send to 
Joppe, and call hither Simon, 
who is surnamed Peter, who 
shall speak to thee words, 
whereby thou shalt be saved, 
and all thy house. And when 
I had begun to speak, the Holy 
Ghost fell upon them, as upon 
us also in the beginning. And 
I remembered the word of the 
Lord, how that he said : John 
indeed baptized with water ^ hut 
you shall be baptized with the 
Holy Ghost, If then God gave 
them the same grace, as to us 
also who believed in the Lord 
Jesus Christ; who was I, that 
could withstand God ? 

Q. "What is Baptismt of 
blood ? 

See"L. ofC.,"p. 13, No. 14. 

(Ex. 4. A. M. 2513.) When 
Moses was in his journey, in 
the inn, the Lord met him, and 
would have killed him. Imme- 
diately Sephora took a very 
sharp stone, and circumcised 



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her son, and touched his feet, 
and said : A bloody spouse art 
thou to me. And he let him go 
after she had said : A bloody 
spouse thou art to me, because 
of the circumcision. 

Q. Is Baptism of desire or of 
blood sufficient to produce 
the effects of Baptism of 
water ? 

(Acts 8. A. D. 34.) Now an 
Angel of the Lord spoke to 
Philip, saying : Arise, go to- 
wards the south, to the way 
that goeth down from Jerusa- 
lem into Gaza : this is desert. 
And rising up, he went. And 
behold a man of Ethiopia, an 
eunuch, of great authority un- 
der Candace the queen of the 
Ethiopians, who had charge 
over all her treasures, had come 
to Jerusalem to adore. And 
he was returning, sitting in his 
chariot, and reading Isaias the 
prophet ; then Philip, opening 
his mouth, and beginning at 
this scripture, preached unto 
him Jesus. And as they went 
on their way they came to a 
certain water; and the eunuch 
said : See, here is water : what 
doth hinder me from being bap- 
tized? And Philip said: If 
thou believest with all thy 
heart, thou mayest. And he 
answering, said : I believe that 
Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 
And he commanded the chariot 



to stand still; and they went 
down into the water, both Philip 
and the eunuch : and he bap- 
tized him. And when they were 
come up out of the water, the 
spirit of the Lord took away 
Philip ; and the eunuch saw 
him no more. 

(Rom. 4.) This blessedness 
then doth it remain in the cir- 
cumcision only, or in the uncir- 
cumcision also? For we say 
that unto Abraham faith w^as 
reputed to justice. How then 
was it reputed ? When he was 
in circumcision, or in uncircum- 
cision ? Not in circumcision, 
but in uncircumcision. And he 
received the sign of circumci- 
sion, a seal of the justice of the 
faith, which he had, being un- 
circumcised. 

Q. "What do we promise in 
Baptism ? 

See " L. of C./' p. 15, No. 2. 

Q. "Why is the name of a 
saint given in Baptism ? 

See **L. of C," p. 9, No. 7; p. 11, No. 10. 

Q. Why are godfathers and 
godmothers given in Bap- 
tism ? 

See"L. of C.,"p. 11, No. 11. 

Q. "What is the obligation of 
a godfather and a god- 
mother ? 

(Mark 10: 14.) Suffer the lit- 
tie children to come to Me, and 
forbid them not : for of such is 
the Kingdom of God. 



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ON CONFIRMATION. 



Q. "What is Confirmation ? 

See "L. of C," p. 125, No. 23; p. 126, 
No. 24. 

(Acts 4. A. D. 33.) As the 
apostles were speaking to the 
people, the priests, and the offi- 
cer of the temple, and the Sad- 
ducees, came upon them, being 
grieved that they taught the 
people, and preached in Jesus 
the resurrection from the dead : 
and calling them, they charged 
them not to speak at all, nor 
teach in the name of Jesus. 
But Peter and John answering, 
said to them: If it be just in 
the sight of God, to hear you 
rather than God, judge ye. For 
we cannot but speak the things 
which we have seen and heard. 
And when they had prayed, the 
place was moved wherein they 
were assembled ; and they were 
all filled with the Holy Ghost, 
and they spoke the word of God 
with confidence. 

(Job 7.) The life of man 
upon earth is a warfare, and his 
days are like the days of a hire- 
ling. As a servant longeth for 
the shade, as the hireling look- 
eth for the end of his work. So 
I also have had empty months, 
and have numbered to myself 
wearisome nights. If I lie 
down to sleep, I shall say : 
When shall I arise ? and again 
I shall look for the evening, and 
shall be filled with sorrows even 
till darkness. What is a man 
that thou shouldst magnify 



him ? or why dost thou set 
thy heart upon him? Thou 
visitest him early in the morn- 
ing and thou provest him sud- 
denly. 

Q. "Who administers Confir- 
mation ? 

(Acts 8. A. D. 33.) Now 
there was a certain man named 
Simon, who before had been a 
magician in that city, seducing 
the people of Samaria, giving 
out that he was some great one : 
to whom they all gave ear, from 
the least to the greatest, saying : 
This man is the power of God, 
which is called great. And they 
wer€ attentive to him, because, 
for a long time, he had be- 
witched them with his magical 
practices. But when they had 
believed Philip preaching of the 
kingdom of God, in the name of 
Jesus Christ, they were bap- 
tized, both men and women. 
Then Simon himself believed 
also ; and being baptized, he 
stuck close to Philip. And 
being astonished, wondered to 
see the signs and exceeding 
great miracles which were done. 
Now when the apostles, who 
were in Jerusalem, had heard 
that Samaria had received the 
word of God, they sent unto 
them Peter and John. Who, 
when they were come, prayed 
for them, that they might re- 
ceive the Hoh^ Ghost. For he 
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of them ; but they were only 
baptized in the name of the 
Lord Jesus. Then they laid 
their hands upon them, and 
they received the Holy Ghost. 
And when Simon saw, that by 
the imposition of the hands of 
the apostles, the Holy Ghost 
was given, he offered them 
money, saying : Give me also 
this power, that on whomsoever 
I shall lay 7ny hands, he may 
receive the Holy Ghost. But 
Peter said to him ; Keep thy 
money to thyself, to perish with 
thee, because thou hast thought 
that the gift of God may be 
purchased with money. 

Q. How does the bishop give 
Confirmation ? 

(I. Kings 10. A. M. 2909.) 
Samuel took a little vial of oil, 
and poured it upon Saul's head, 
and kissed him, and said : Be- 
hold, the Lord hath anointed 
thee to be prince over his in- 
heritance, and thou shalt de- 
liver his people out of the hands 
of their enemies, that are round 
about them. And this shall be 
a sign unto thee, that God hath 
anointed thee to be prince. And 
the Spirit of the Lord shall 
come upon thee, and thou shalt 
prophesy with them, and shalt 
be changed into another man. 
Saul then departed to his own 
house in Gabaa : and there went 
with him a part of the army, 
whose hearts God had touched. 
But the children of Belial said: 
Shall this fellow be able to save 
us ? And they despised him, 
and brought him no presents, 



but he dissembled as though he 
heard not. 

Q. What is holy chrism ? 

(Ex. 30. A. M. 2513.) The 
Lord spoke to Moses, saying : 
Take spices, of principal and 
chosen myrrh five hundred si- 
des, and of cinnamon half so 
much, that is, two hundred and 
fifty sides, of calamus in like 
manner two hundred and fifty. 
And of cassia five hundred si- 
des by the weight of the sanc- 
tuar3% of oil of olives the meas- 
ure hin : and thou shalt make 
the holy oil of unction, an oint- 
ment compounded after the art 
of the perfumer, and there- 
with thou shalt anoint the tab- 
ernacle of the testimony, and 
the ark of the testament, and 
the table with the vessels there- 
of, the candlestick and furniture 
thereof, the altars of incense, 
and of holocaust, and all the 
furniture that belongeth to the 
service of them. And thou 
shalt sanctify all, and they 
shall be most holy : he that 
shall touch them shall be sanc- 
tified. Thou shalt anoint Aaron 
and his sons, and shalt sanc- 
tify them, that they ma}^ do 
the office of priesthood unto me. 
And thou shalt say to the chil- 
dren of Israel : This oil of 
unction shall be holy unto me 
throughout \your generations. 
The flesh of man shall not be 
anointed therewith, and j^ou 
shall make none other of the 
same composition, because it is 
sanctified, and shall be holy 
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shall compound such, and shall 
give thereof to a stranger, he 
shall be cut off from his people. 

Q. 'What does the bishop 
say in anointing the person 
he confirms ? 

(II. Cor. 1.) Now he that con- 
firmeth us with you in Christ, 
and that hath anointed us, is 
God : who also hath sealed us, 
and given the pledge of the 
Spirit in our hearts. 

Q. What is meant by an- 
ointing the forehead "with 
chrism in the form of a 
cross ? 

(Ezek. 9.) The Lord said 
to him : Go through the midst 
of the city, through the midst 
of Jerusalem : and mark Thau 
upon the foreheads of the men. 

Q. "Why does the bishop give 
the person he confirms a 
slight blo-w on the cheek ? 

(Rom. 8.) The Spirit him- 
self giveth testimony to our 
spirit, that we are the sons of 
God. And if sons, heirs also ; 
heirs indeed of God, and joint- 
heirs with Christ: yet so, if we 
suffer with him, that we may 
be also glorified with him. For 
I reckon that the sufferings of 
this time are not worthy to be 
compared with the glory to 
come, that shall be revealed in 
us. Who then shall separate 
us from the love of Christ? 
Shall tribulation ? or distress ? 
or famine ? or nakedness ? or 
danger ? or persecution ? or the 
sword? (As it is written : For 



thy sake ive are put to death all 
the day long. We are accounted 
as sheep for the slaughter.) But 
in all these things we overcome, 
because of him that hath loved 
us. For I am sure that neither 
death, nor life, nor Angels, nor 
principalities, nor powers, nor 
things present, nor things to 
come, nor might, nor height, 
nor depth, nor any other crea- 
ture, shall be able to separate 
us from the love of God, which 
is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

Q. To receive Confirmation 
"worthily is it necessary to 
be in the state of grace ? 

(Wisd. 1.) Wisdom will not 
enter into a malicious soul, nor 
dwell in a body subject to sins. 
For the Hol}^ Spirit of disci- 
pline will flee from the deceitful, 
and will withdraw himself from 
thoughts that are without un- 
derstanding, and he shall not 
abide when iniquity cometli in. 

Q. "What special prepar- 
ation should be made to re- 
ceive Confirmation ? 

(Acts 19. A. D. 54.) It 
came to pass, while Apollo was 
at Corinth, that Paul having 
passed through the upper 
coasts, came to Ephesus, and 
found certain disciples. And 
he said to them : Have you re- 
ceived the Hol}^ Ghost since ye 
believed ? But they said to 
him : We have not so much as 
heard whether there be a Holy 
Ghost. And he said : In what 
then were you baptized ? Who 
said : In John's baptism. Then 



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Paul said : John baptized the 
people with the baptism of pen- 
ance, saying : That they should 
believe in him who was to come 
after him, that is to sa}^ in 
Jesus. Having heard these 
things, they were baptized in 
the name of the Lord Jesus. 
And when Paul had imposed 
his hands on them, the Holy 
Ghost came upon them, and 



tlie}^ spoke with tongues and 
prophesied. 

Q. Is it a sin to neglect Con- 
firmation ? 

(I. Cor. 12.) I give you to 
understand, that no man, speak- 
ing by the spirit of God, saith 
Anathema to Jesus. And no 
man can say the Lord Jesus, 
but by the Holy Ghost. 



LESSON SIXTEENTH. 



ON THE GIFTS AND FRUITS OF THE HOLY GHOST. 



Q. "Which are the effects of 
Confirmation ? 

See "L. of C," p. 105, No. 7. 

(Ps. 67.) Thou has as- 
cended on high, thou hast led 
captivity captive ; thou hast 
received gifts in men. 

(Judg. 14. A. M. 2867.) 
Samson went down with his 
father and mother to Tham- 
natha. And when they were 
come to the vineyards of the 
town, beliold a young lion met 
him raging and roaring. And 
the spirit of the Lord came 
upon Samson, and he tore the 
lion as he would have torn a 
kid in pieces, having nothing 
at all in his hand : and he 
would not tell this to his father 
and mother. And he went 
down and spoke to the woman 
that had pleased his eyes. And 
after some days returning to 
take her, he went aside to see 
the carcass of the lion, and be- 
hold there was a swarm of bees 



in the mouth of the lion and a 
honey-comb. And when he 
had taken it in his hands, he 
went on eating : and coming to 
his father and mother, he gave 
them of it, and they ate : but 
he would not tell them, that he 
had taken the honey from the 
body of the lion. 

(Judg. 15. A. M. 2868.) 
The sons of Judas said to him, 
we are come to bind thee and 
to deliver thee into the hands 
of the Philistines. And Sam- 
son said to them : Swear to me, 
and promise me, that you will 
not kill me. They said : We 
will not kill thee : but we will 
deliver thee up bound. And 
they bound him with two new 
cords, and brought him from 
the rock Etam. Now when he 
was come to the place of the 
Jaw-bone, and the Philistines 
shouting went to meet him, the 
Spirit of the Lord came 
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the flax is wont to be consumed 
at the approach of fire, so the 
bands with which he was bound 
were broken and loosed. And 
finding a jaw-bone, even the 
jaw-bone of an ass which lay 
there, catching it up, he slew 
therewith a thousand men. 
And he said : With the jaw- 
bone of an ass, with the jaw of 
the colt of asses I have de- 
stroyed them, and have slain a 
thousand men. And when he 
had ended these words singing, 
he threw the jaw-bone out of 
his hand, and called the name of 
that place Ramathlechi, which 
is interpreted the lifting up of 
the jaw-bone. Aud being very 
thirsty, he cried to the Lord, 
and said : Thou hast given this 
very great deliverance and 
victory into the hand of th}^ 
servant : and behold I die for 
thirst, and shall fall into the 
hands of the uncircumcised. 
Then the Lord opened a great 
tooth in the jaw of the ass, and 
waters issued out of it. And 
when he had drank them he re- 
freshed his spirit, and recovered 
his strength. 

Q. Which are the gifts of the 
Holy Grhost ? 

(lY. Kings 13. A. M. 3165.) 
Eliseus said to Joas : Bring a ' 
bow and arrows. Andwhenhe 
had brought him a bow, and ar- 
rows, he said : Take the arrows. 
And when he had taken them, 
he said to him : Strike with an 
arrow upon the ground. And 
he struck three times and stood 
still. And the man of God 



was angry with him, and said : 
If thou hadst smitten five or 
six or seven times, thou hadst 
smitten Syria even to utter 
destruction : but now three 
times shalt thou smite it. 

(Isa. 11.) The spirit of the 
Lord shall rest upon him : the 
spirit of wisdom, and of un- 
derstanding, the spirit of coun- 
sel, and of fortitude, the spirit 
of knowledge, and of godliness. 
And he shall be filled with the 
spirit of the fear of the Lord. 

Q. "WTiy do "we receive the 
gift of Fear of the Lord ? 

(Eccltus. 1.) The fear of the 
Lord is honour, and glor}", and 
gladness, and a crown of joy. 
The fear of the Lord shall de- 
light the heart, and shall give 
joy, and gladness, and length 
of days. With him that feareth 
the Lord, it shall go well in the 
latter end, and in the day of his 
death he shall be blessed. The 
fear of the Lord driveth out sin : 
for he that is without fear, can- 
not be justified : for the wrath 
of his high spirits is his ruin. 

Q. "Why do ^we receive the 
gift of Piety ? 

See "L. of C.,'' p. 103. No. 2. 

Q. "Why do "we receive the 
gift of Knowledge ? 

See *'L. of C," p. 85, No. 14. 

Q. "Why do we receive the 
gift of Fortitude ? 

(TI. Maccbs. 6. A. M. 3837.) 
Eleazar one of the chief of the 
scribes, a man advanced in 
years, and of a comely counte- 



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nance, was pressed to open bis 
mouth to eat swine's flesh. But 
he, choosing rather a most glo- 
rious death than a hateful life, 
went forward voluntarily to the 
torment. And considering in 
what manner he was come to it, 
patiently bearing, he determined 
not to do any unlawful things 
for the love of life. But they 
that stood by, being moved 
with wicked pity, for the old 
friendship they had with the 
man, taking him aside, desired 
that flesh might be brought, 
which it was lawful for him to 
eat, that he might make as if 
he had eaten, as the king had 
commanded of the flesh of the 
sacrifice : that by so doing he 
misfht be delivered from death : 
and for the sake of their old 
friendship with the man they 
did him this courtes3\ But he 
began to consider the dignity 
of his age, and his ancient years, 
and the inbred honour of his 
grey head, and his good life and 
conversation from a child : and 
he answered without delay, ac- 
cording to the ordinances of the 
holy law made by God, saying, 
that he would rather be sent 
into the other world. For it 
doth not become our age, said 
he, to dissemble : whereby 
many young persons might 
think that Eleazar, at the age 
of fourscore and ten years, was 
gone over to the life of the 
heathens : and so they, through 
my dissimulation, and for a 
little time of a corruptible life, 
should be deceived, and hereby 
I should bring a stain and a 



curse upon my old age. For 
though, for the present time, I 
should be delivered from the 
punishments of men, yet should 
I not escape the hand of the 
Almighty neither alive nor 
dead. Wherefore by departing 
manfully out of this life, I shall 
show myself worth^^ of my old 
age: and I shall leave an ex- 
ample of fortitude to young 
men, if with a ready mind and 
constancy I suffer an honour- 
able death, for the most vener- 
able and most holy laws. Thus 
did this man die, leaving not 
only to young men, but also to 
the whole nation, the memory 
of his death for an example of 
virtue and fortitude. 

Q. Why do "we receive the 
gift of Counsel ? 

(Eccltus. 32.) My son, do 
thou nothing without counsel, 
and thou shalt not repent when 
thou hast done. 

Q. "Why do "we receive the 
gift of Understanding ? 

(Isa. 42.) The Lord shall go 
forth as a mighty man, as a 
man of war shall he stir up 
zeal : he shall shout and cry : 
I will lead the blind into the 
way which they know not : 
and in the paths which they 
were io:norant of I will make 
them walk : I will make dark- 
ness light before them, and 
crooked things straight : these 
things have I done to them, and 
have not forsaken them. 

Q. "Why do vre receive the 
gift of T?Visdom? 

(III. Kings 3. A. M. 2991.) 



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Then there came two women 
to the king, and stood before 
him : and one of them said : I 
beseech thee, my lord, I and 
this woman dwelt in one house, 
and I was delivered of a child 
with her in the chamber. And 
the third day, after that I was 
delivered, she also was deliv- 
ered, and we were together, and 
no other person with us in the 
bouse, only we two. And this 
woman's child died in the night : 
for in her sleep she overlaid 
him. And rising in the dead 
time of the night, she took my 
child from my side, while I thy 
handmaid was asleep, and laid 
it in her bosom : and laid her 
dead child in my bosom. And 
when I rose in the morning to 
give my child food, behold it 
was dead : but considering him 
more diligently when it was 
clear day, I found that it was 
not mine which I bore. And 
the other woman answered : It 
is not so as thou say est, but thy 
child is dead and mine is alive. 
On the contrary she said; 
Thou liest : for my child liveth, 
and thy child is dead. And in 
this manner they strove before 
the king. Then said the king : 
The one saith, My child is 
alive, and thy child is dead. 
And the other answereth : Nay, 
but thy child is dead, and mine 
liveth. The king therefore 
said: Bring me a sword. And 
when they had brought a sword 
before the king, divide, said he, 
the living child in two, and give 
half to the one, and half to the 
other. But the woman whose 



child was alive, said to the king 
(for her pity was moved upon 
her child) 1 beseech thee, my 
lord, give her the child alive, 
and do not kill it. But the 
other said : Let it be neither 
mine nor thine, but divide it. 
The king answered, and said : 
Give the living child to this 
woman, and let it not be killed, 
for she is the mother thereof. 



Q. Which are the Beati- 
tudes ? 

See'^L. of C,"p.31, No. 7. 

(I. Tim. 6.) Charge the rich 
of this world not to be high- 
minded, nor to trust in the un- 
certainty of riches, but in the 
living God, (who giveth us 
abundantly all things to enjoy,) 
to do good, to be rich in good 
works, to live easily, to com- 
municate to others, to lay up 
in store for themselves a good 
foundation against the time to 
come, that they may lay hold 
on the true life. 

(Job 21.) Why then do the 
wicked live, are they advanced, 
and strengthened with riches ? 
Their seed continueth before 
them, a multitude of kinsmen, 
and of children's children in 
their sight. Their houses are 
secure and peaceable, and the 
rod of God is not upon them. 
Their cattle have conceived, 
and failed not : their cow has 
calved, and is not deprived of 
her fruit. Their little ones go 
out like a flock, and their chil- 
dren dance and play. They take 
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rejoice at the sound of the 
organ. They spend their days 
in wealth, and in a moment 
they go down to hell. Who 
have said to God : Depart from 
us, we desire not the knowledge 
of thy ways. Who is the Al- 
mighty, that we sliould serve 
him? and what doth it profit 
us if we pray to him ? Yet be- 
cause their good things are not 
in their hand, may the counsel 
of the wicked be far from me. 
How often shall the lamp of the 
wicked be put out, and a deluge 
come upon them, and he shall 
distribute the sorrows of his 
wrath ? They shall be as chaff 
before the face of the wind, and 
as ashes which the w^hirlwind 
scattereth. God shall lay up 
the sorrow of the father for his 
children : and when he shall re- 
pay, thdn shall he know. His 
eyes shall see his own destruc- 
tion, and he shall drink of the 
wrath of the Almighty. Be- 
cause the wicked man is re- 
served to the day of destruc- 
tion, and he shall be brought to 
the day of wrath. 

See '• L. of C," p. 55, No. 6; p. 83, No. 10. 
See "L. of C.,"p. 106, No. 8. 
See "L. of C.,"p. 57, No. 11. 
See "L. of C ," p. S4, No. 18; p. 53, No. 18 ; 
p. 116, No. 6. 
See"L. of C.,"p.86, No. 18. 
See"L. of C," p. 67, No. 32. 
See " L. of C," p. 68, No. 36. 

(Job 2. A. M. 2520.) Now it 
came to pass, when on a certain 
day the sons of God came, and 
stood before the Lord, and 
Satan came among them, and 
stood in his sight, that the 
Lord said to Satan : Whence 



comest thou ? And he answered 
and said ; I have gone round 
about the earth, and walked 
through it. And the Lord said 
to Satan : Hast thou consid- 
ered my servant Job, that 
there is none like him in the 
earth, a man simple, and up- 
right, and fearing God, and 
avoiding evil, and still keeping 
his innocence ? But thou hast 
moved me against him, that I 
should afflict him without 
cause. And Satan answered, 
and said : Skin for skin, and all 
that a man hath he will give 
for his life : but put forth thy 
hand, and touch his bone and 
his flesh, and then thou shalt 
see that he will bless thee to 
thy face. And the Lord said to 
Satan : Behold he is in thy 
hand, but yet save his life. So 
Satan went forth from the pres- 
ence of the Lord, and struck 
Job with a very grievous ulcer, 
from the sole of the foot even 
to the top of his head : and he 
took a potsherd and scraped 
the corrupt matter, sitting on a 
dunghill. And his wife said to 
him : Dost thou still continue 
in thy simplicity ? bless God, 
and die. And he said to her : 
Thou hast spoken like one of 
the foolish women : if we have 
received good things at the 
hand of God, why should we 
not receive evil ? In all these 
things Job did not sin with his 
lips. The Lord also was turned 
at the penance of Job, when he 
prayed for his friends. And 
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the Lord blessed the latter end 
of Job more than his begin- 



ning. 



Q. "Which are the t-welve 
fruits of the Holy Ghost ? 

(Gal. 5.) The fruit of the 
Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, 
patience, benignity, goodness, 
longanimity, mildness, faith, 
modesty, continency, chastity. 

(Josh. 4. A. M. 2553.) Josue 
called twelve men, whom he 
had chosen out of the children 
of Israel, one out of every tribe, 
and he said to them : Go be- 
fore the ark of the Lord your 
God to the midst of the Jordan, 
and carry from thence ever}^ 
man a stone on your shoulders, 
according to the number of the 
children of Israel, that it ma}^ 
be a sign among you : and 
when your children shall ask 



you to-morrow, saying : What 
mean these stones ? You shall 
answer them : The waters of 
the Jordan ran off before the 
ark of the covenant of the Lord, 
w^hen it passed over the same : 
therefore were these stones set 
for a monument of the children 
of Israel for ever. The chil- 
dren of Israel therefore did as 
Josue commanded them, carry- 
ing out of the channel of the 
Jordan twelve stones, as the 
Lord had commanded him, ac- 
cording to the number of the 
children of Israel, unto the 
place wherein they camped, and 
there they set them. And Josue 
put other tw^elve stones in the 
midst of the channel of the 
Jordan, where the priests stood 
that carried the ark of the cov- 
enant : and they are there until 
this present day. 



LESSON SEYENTEENTH. 



ON THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE. 



Q. What is the Sacrament of 

Penance ? 
See '' L. of C," p. 19, No. 1 ; p. 40, No. 38. 

(lY. Kings 5. A. M. 3115.) 
Naaman, general of the army 
of the king of Sj^'ia, was a 
great man with his master, 
and honourable : for b}^ him the 
Lord gave deliverance to Syria : 
and he was a valiant man and 
rich, but a leper. Now there 
had gone out robbers from 
Syria, and had led away cap- 
tive out of the land of Israel a 



little maid, and she waited upon 
Naaman 's wife. And she said 
to her mistress : I wish my 
master had been with the 
prophet, that is in Samaria : he 
would certainly have healed 
him of the leprosy which he 
hath. And Eliseus sent a mes- 
senger to him, saying : Go, and 
wash seven times in the Jordan, 
and thy flesh shall recover 
health, and thou shalt be clean. 
Then he went down, and washed 
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according to the word of the 
man of God, and his flesh was 
restored, like the flesh of a little 
child, and he was made clean. 
And returning to the man of 
God with all his train, he came, 
and stood before him, and said : 
h\ truth, I know there is no 
other God in all the earth, but 
only in Israel : I beseech thee 
therefore take a blessing of thy 
servant. But he answered : As 
the Lord liveth, before whom I 
stand, I will receive none. And 
when he pressed him, he still 
refused. But Giezi the servant 
of the man of God said : My 
master hath spared Naaman 
this Syrian, in not receiving of 
him that which he brought: as 
the Lord liveth, I will run after 
him, and take some thing of 
him : then he went in, and 
stood before his master. And 
Eliseus said: Whence coraest 
thou, Giezi? He answered: 
Thy servant went no whither. 
But he said: Was not my heart 
present, when the man turned 
back from his chariot to meet 
thee? So now thou hast re- 
ceived money, and received gar- 
ments, to buy olive-yards, and 
vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, 
and men-servants, and maid- 
servants. But the leprosy of 
Naaman shall also stick to thee, 
and to thy seed for ever. And 
he went out from him a leper 
as white as snow. 

Q. Hq-w does the Sacrament 
of Penance remit sin, and re- 
store to the soul the friend- 
ship of God ? 

See " L. of C./' p. 26, No. 13. 



(Ezek. 18.) The soul that 
sinneth, the same shall die : but 
if the wicked do penance for all 
his sins which he hath com- 
mitted, and keep all my com- 
mandments, and do judgment, 
and justice, living he shall live, 
and shall not die. I will not 
remember all his iniquities that 
he hath done: in his justice 
which he hath wrought, he shall 
live. Is it my will that a sin- 
ner should die saith the Lord 
God, and not that he should be 
converted from his ways, and 
live ? But if the just man turn 
himself away from his justice, 
and do iniquity according to 
all the abominations which the 
wicked man useth to work, 
shall he live? all his justices 
which he hath done, shall not 
be remembered : in the prevari- 
cation, by which he hath pre- 
varicated, and in his sin, which 
he hath committed, in them he 
shall die. 

Q. Ho-w do you know that 
the priest has the power of 
absolving from the sins com- 
mitted after Baptism ? 

See " L. of C," p. 26, No. U: p. 75, No. 
14 ; p. 122, No. 8. 

Q. How do the priests of the 
Church exercise the power 
of forgiving sins ? 

See " L. of C," p. 35, No. 24 

(Ezek. 33. A. M. 3417.) The 
word of the Lord came to me, 
saying : Son of man, speak to 
the children of thy people, and 
say to them : When I bring 
the sword upon a land, if the 
people of the land take a man, 
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him a watchman over them. 
And he see the sword coming 
upon the land, and sound the 
trumpet, and tell the people : 
then he that heareth the sound 
of the trumpet, whosoever he 
be, and doth not look to him- 
self, if the sword come, and cut 
bim off: his blood shall be upon 
J his own head. And if the watch- 
man see the sword coming, and 
sound not the trumpet : and the 
people look not to themselves, 
and the sword come, and cut off 
a soul from among them : he 
indeed is taken away in his 
iniquity, but I will require his 
blood at the hand of the w^atch- 
man. So thou, son of man, 
I have made thee a watchman 
to the house of Israel: there- 
fore thou shalt hear the word 
from my mouth, and shalt tell 
it them from me. When I say 
to the wicked : O wicked man, 
thou shalt surely die : if thou 
dost not speak to warn the 
wicked man from his way : that 
wicked man shall die in his in- 
iquity, but I will require his 
blood at thy hand. But if thou 
tell the wicked man, that he 
may be converted from his 
ways, and he be not converted 
from his way : he shall die in 
his iniquity : but thou hast de- 
livered thy soul. Thou there- 
fore, son of man, say to the 
house of Israel : As I live, 
saith the Lord God, I desire 
not the death of the wicked, but 
that the wicked turn from his 
way, and live. Turn ye, turn 
ye from your evil ways : and 
why will 3'ou die, O house of 



Israel ? Yea, if I shall say to 
the just that he shall surely 
live, and he, trusting in his 
justice, commit iniquity : all his 
justices shall be forgotten, and 
in his iniquity, which he hath 
committed, in the same shall he 
die. And if I shall say to the 
wicked : Thou shalt surely die : 
and he do penance for his sin, 
and do judgment and justice, 
and if that wicked man restore 
the pledge, and render what he 
had robbed, and walk in the 
commandments of life, and do 
no unjust thing : he shall surely 
live, and shall not die. None 
of his sins, which he hath com- 
mitted, shall be imputed to 
him: he hath done judgment 
and justice, he shall surely live. 

Q. What must -sve do to re- 
ceive the Sacrament of Pen- 
ance worthily ? 

See *• L. of C," p. 73, No. 9; p. 79, No. 1. 

Q. "What is the examination 
of conscience ? 

See"L. of C," p. 72, No. 7. 

Q. Ho"w can we make a good 
examination of conscience ? 

(II. Kings 12. A. M. 2971.) 
The Lord sent Nathan to 
David : and when he was come 
to him, he said to him : There 
were two men in one city, the 
one rich, and the other poor. 
The rich man had exceeding 
many sheep and oxen. But the 
poor man had nothing at all 
but one little ewe-lamb, which 
he had bought and nourished 
up, and which had grown up in 
his house together with his 
children, eatinsj of his bread, 



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and drinking of his cup, and 
sleeping in his bosom : and it 
was unto him as a daughter. 
And when a certain stranger 
was come to the rich man, he 



spared to take of his own sheep 
and oxen, to make a feast for 
that stranger, who was come to 
him, but took the poor man's 
ewe, and dressed it for the man 
that was come to him. And 
David's anger being exceed- 
ingly kindled against that man, 
he said to Nathan : As the 
Lord liveth, the man that hath 
done this is a child of death. 
He shall restore the ewe four- 
fold, because he did this thing, 
and had no pity. And Nathan 
said to David : Thou art the 
man. Thus saith the Lord the 
God of Israel : I anointed thee 
king over Israel, and I deliv- 
ered thee from the hand of 
Saul, and gave thee thy mas- 
ter's house and thy master's 
wives into thy bosom, and gave 
thee the house of Israel and 
Juda : and if these things be 
little, I shall add far greater 



things unto thee. Why there- 
fore hast thou despised the 
word of the Lord, to do evil in 
my sight ? Thou hast killed 
Urias the Hethite with the 
sword, and hast taken his wife 
to be thy wife, and hast slain 
him with the sword of the ciiil- 
dren of Ammon. Therefore the 
sword shall never depart from 
thy house, because thou hast 
despised me, and hast taken 
the wife of Urias the Hethite 
to be thy wife. 

Q. "What should "we do before 
beginning the examination 
of conscience? 

(Apoc. 3.) To the angel of 
the church of Laodicea, write : 
These things saith the Amen, 
the faithful and true witness, 
who is the beginning of the 
creation of God : I know thy 
works, that thou art neither 
cold, nor hot. I would thou 
wert cold, or hot. But because 
thou art lukewarm, and neither 
cold, nor hot, 1 will begin to 
vomit thee out of my mouth. 



LESSON EIGHTEENTH. 



ON CONTRITION. 



Q. What is contrition, or 
sorrow for sin ? 

(lY. Kings 20. A. M. 329L) 
In those days Ezechias was 
sick unto death : and Isaias the 
son of Amos the prophet came 
and said to him : Thus saith 
the Lord God : Give charge 



concerning thy house, for thou 
shalt die, and not live. And he 
turned his face to the wall, and 
prayed to the Lord, saying : I 
iDeseech thee, O Lord, remem- 
ber how I have walked before 
thee in truth, and with a per- 
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which is pleasing before thee. 
And Ezechias wept with much 
weeping. And before Isaias 
was gone out of the middle of 
the court, the word of the Lord 
came to liim, saj^ng : Go back, 
and tell Ezechias the captain of 
my people : Thus saith the 
Lord the God of David thy fa- 
ther : I have heard thy pra3'er, 
and I have seen thy tears : and 
behold I have healed thee, on 
the third day thou shalt go up 
to the temple of the Lord. And 
Ezechias said to Isaias : What 
shall be the sign that the Lord 
will heal me, and that I shall 
go up to the temple of the Lord 
the third day ? And Isaias said 
to him : This shall be the sign 
from the Lord, that the Lord 
will do the word which he hath 
spoken : Wilt thou that the 
shadow go forward ten lines, or 
that it go back so many de- 
grees ? And Ezechias said : It 
is an easy matter for the shad- 
ow to go forward ten lines : 
and I do not desire that this be 
done, but let it return back ten 
degrees. And Isaias the proph- 
et called upon the Lord, and 
he brousjht the shadow ten de- 
grees backwards b}^ the lines, 
by which it had already gone 
down in the dial of Achaz. 

Q. ^W^hat kind of sorrcw 
should -we have for our 
sins? 

(IL Cor. 7.) Although I 
made 3^ou sorrowful by my 
epistle, I do not repent ; and if 
I did repent, seeing that the 
same epistle (although but for 



a time) did make you sorrow- 
ful ; now I am glad : not be- 
cause you were made sorrow- 
ful ; but because you were 
made sorrowful unto penance. 
For you were made sorrowful 
according to God, that you 
might suffer damage by us in 
nothing. For the sorrow that 
is according to God worketh 
penance, steadfast unto salva- 
tion : but the sorrow of the 
world worketh death. For be- 
hold this self-same thing, that 
you were made sorrowful ac- 
cording to God, how great care- 
fulness it worketh in you ; yea 
defence, yea indignation, yea 
fear, yea desire, yea zeal, yea 
revenge ; in all things 3'ou have 
shewed yourselves to be unde- 
filed in the matter. 

Q. What do you mean by- 
saying that our sorroTV 
should be interior ? 

(Deut. 30.) Now when all 
these things shall be come up- 
on thee, the blessing or the 
curse, which I have set forth 
before thee, and thou shalt be 
touched with repentance of thy 
heart among all the nations, in- 
to which the Lord thy God 
shall have scattered thee, and 
shalt return to him, and obey 
his commandments, as I com- 
mand thee this day, thou and 
thy children, with ail thy heart, 
and with all thy soul : the 
Lord thy God will bring back 
again thy captivity, and will 
have mercy on thee, and gather 
thee again out of all the na- 
tions, into which he scattered 



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thee before. If thou be driven 
as far as the poles of heaven, 
the Lord thy God will fetch 
thee back from thence, and will 
take thee to himself, and bring 
thee into the land which thy 
fathers possessed, and thou 
shalt possess it : and blessing 
thee, he will make thee more 
numerous than were thy fa- 
thers. Yet so if thou hear the 
voice of the Lord th}^ God, and 
keep his precepts and cere- 
monies, which are written in 
this law : and return to the 
Lord thy God with all thy 
heart, and with all thy soul. 

Q. "What do you mean by- 
saying that our sorrow 
should be supernatural? 

See '• L. of C," p. 83, No. 11 ; p. 108, No. 12. 

Q. What do you mean by 
saying that our sorrow- 
should be universal ? 

(Num. 33. A.M. 2553.) The 
Lord said to Moses : Com- 
mand the children of Israel, 
and say to them : When you 
shall have passed over the 
Jordan, entering into the land 
of Chanaan, destroy all the 
inhabitants of that land : beat 
down their pillars, and break 
in pieces their statues, and 
waste all their high places, 
cleansing the land, and dwelling 
in it. For I have given it you 
for a possession. But if you 
will not kill the inhabitants of 
the land: they that remain, 
shall be unto you as nails in 
your eyes, and spears in your 
sides, and they shall be your 
adversaries in the land of your 



habitation. And whatsoever I 
had thought to do to them, I 
will do to you. 

(I. King 15. A. M. 2934.) 
And Saul smote Amalec from 
Hevila, until thou comest to 
Sur, which is over-against 
Egypt. And he took Agag the 
king of Amalec alive : but all 
the common people he slew 
with the edge of the sword. 
And Saul and the people spared 
Agag and the best of the flocks 
of sheep and of the herds, and 
the garments and the rams, and 
all that was beautiful, and 
would not destroy them : but 
every thing that was vile and 
good for nothing, that they de- 
stroyed. And Samuel said : 
When thou wast a little one in 
thy own eyes, wast thou not 
made the head of the tribes of 
Israel ? And the Lord anointed 
thee to be king over Israel. 
And the Lord sent thee on the 
way, and said : Go, and kill the 
sinners of Amalec, and thou 
shalt fight against them until 
thou hast utterly destroyed 
them. Why then didst thou 
not hearken to the voice of the 
Lord : but hast turned to the 
prey, and hast done evil in the 
eyes of the Lord. And Saul 
said to Samuel: Yea I have 
hearkened to the voice of the 
Lord, and have walked in the 
way by which the Lord sent 
me, and have brought Agag the 
king of Amalec, and Amalec I 
have slain. But the people 
took of the spoils sheep and 
oxen, as the first-fruits of those 
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sacrifice to the Lord their God 
in Galgal. And Samuel said : 
Doth the Lord desire holocaust 
and victims, and not rather 
that the voice of the Lord 
should be obeyed ? For obedi- 
ence is better than sacrifices : 
and to hearken rather than to 
offer the fat of rams. Because 
it is like the sin of witchcraft, 
to rebel : and like the crime of 
idolatry, to refuse to obey. 
Forasmuch therefore as thou 
hast rejected the word of the 
Lord, the Lord hath also re- 
jected thee from being king. 

Q. What do you mean -when 
you say that our sorrow 
should be sovereign? 

See "L. of C," p. 85, No. 15. 

Q. Why should we be sorry 
for our sins? 

See " L. of C," p. 68, No. 35. 

Q. How many kinds of con- 
trition are there? 

(Ecc. 2.) Ye that fear the 
Lord, wait for his mere}" : and 
go not aside from him, lest ye 
fall. Ye that fear the Lord, 
believe him: and your reward 
shall not be made void. Ye 
that fear the Lord, hope in him : 
and mercy shall come to you 
for your delight. Ye that fear 
the Lord, love him, and your 
hearts shall be enlightened. 
For God is compassionate and 
merciful, and will forgive sins 
in the day of tribulation : and 
he is a protector to all that 
seek him in truth. They that 
fear the Lord, will not be in- 
credulous to his word : arid they 
that love him will keep his way. 
7 



They that fear the Lord, will 
seek after the things that are 
well pleasing to him : and they 
that love him, shall be filled 
with his law. 

(Jer. 17.) Let them be con- 
founded that persecute me, and 
let not me be confounded : let 
them be afraid, and let not me 
be afraid : bring upon them the 
da}^ of affliction, and with a 
double destruction, destroy' 
them. 

Q. "What is perfect contri- 
tion? 

See "L. of C," p. 36, No. 27. 

Q. What is imperfect con- 
trition ? 

See "L. of C.,"p. 81, No. 7. 

Q. Is imperfect contrition 
sufficient for a worthy con- 
fession ? 

See"L. of C.,"p. 73, No. 9. 

Q. "What do you mean by a 
firm purpose of sinning no 
more? 

See " L. of C," p. 54, Nos. 3, 4 ; p. 85.No.16. 

(Gen. 19. A. M. 2107.) Tlie 
sun was risen upon the earth, 
and Lot entered into Segor. 
And the Lord rained upon Sod- 
om and Gomorrha brimstone 
and fire from the Lord out of 
heaven. And he destroyed 
these cities, and all the coun- 
tr}^ about, all the inhabitants 
of the cities, and all thin^rs 
that spring from the earth. 
And his wife looking behind 
her, was turned into a statue 
of salt. 

(Gen. 35.) In the mean time 
God said to Jacob : Arise, and 
go up to Bethel, and dwell 



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there, and make there an altar 
to God, who appeared to thee 
when thou didst flee from Esau 
thy brother. And Jacob hav- 
ing called together all his 
household, said : Cast away 
the strange gods that are 
among you, and be cleansed 
and change your garments. 
Arise, and let us go np to 
Bethel, that we may make there 
an altar to God : who heard me 
in the day of my affliction, and 
accompany me in m}^ journey. 
So they gave him alltlie strange 
gods they had, and the ear- 
rings which were in their ears : 
and he buried them imder the 
turpentine-tree, that is behind 
the city of Sichem. And when 
they were departed, the terror 
of God fell upon all the cities 
round about, and they durst 
]iot pursue after them as they 
went away. 

Q. What do you mean by 
the near occasions of sin ? 

See " L. of C," p. 53, No, 19. 

(Judg. 13. A. M. 2849.) 
Now there was a certain man 
of Saraa, and of the race of 
Dan, whose name was Manue, 
and his wife was barren. And 
an angel of the Lord appeared 
to her, and said : Behold thou 
shalt conceive and bear a son : 
beware thou drink no wine, nor 
strong drink, nor eat any un- 
clean thing : for the child shall 
be a Nazarite of God from his 
inftmcy, from his mother's 
womb until the day of his 
death, and he shall begin to de- 



liver Israel from the hands of 
the Philistines. And she bore 
a son, and called his name 
Samson. And the child grew, 
and the Lord blessed him. 
Then Samson went down to 
Thamnatha, and seeing there a 
woman of the daughters of the 
Philistines, he came up, and told 
his father and his mother, say- 
ing : I saw a woman in Tham- 
natha of the daughters of the 
Philistines : I beseech you, take 
her for me to wife. After this 
he loved a woman, who dwelt 
in the valley of Sorec, and she 
was called Dalila. And the 
princes of the Philistines came 
to her, and said : Deceive him, 
and learn of him wherein his 
great strength lieth, and how 
we may be able to overcome 
him, to bind and afflict him : 
which if thou shalt do, we will 
give thee every one of us eleven 
hundred pieces of silver. Then 
opening the truth of the thing, 
he said to her : The razor hath 
never come upon my head, for 
I am a Nazarite, that is to say, 
consecrated to God from my 
mother's womb : If my head 
be shaven, my strength shall 
depart from me, and I shall be- 
come weak, and shall be like 
other men. But she made him 
sleep upon her knees, and lay 
his head in her bosom. And 
she called a barber, and shaved 
his seven locks, and began to 
drive him away, and thrust 
him from her: for immediately 
his strength departed from him. 
And she said : The Philistines 
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awakening from sleep, be said 
in his mind : I will go out as I 
did before, not knowing that 
the Lord was departed from 
him. Then the Philistines 



seized upon him, and forthwith 
pulled out his eyes, and led him 
bound in chains to Gaza, and 
shutting him up in prison made 
him grind. 



LESSON NINETEENTH. 



ON CONFESSION, 



Q. "WTiat is confession? 

(Num. 5. A. M. 2514.) The 
Lord spoke to Moses, saying : 
Say to the children of Israel : 
"When a man or woman shall 
have committed any of all the 
sins that men are wont to com- 
mit, and by negligence shall 
have transgressed the com- 
mandment of the Lord, and of- 
fended, they shall confess their 
sin, and restore the principal 
itself, and the fifth part over 
and above, to him against whom 
they have sinned. But if there 
be no one to receive it, thej^ 
shall give it to the Lord, and 
it shall be the priest's. 

Q. What sins are "we bound 
to confess ? 

See " L. of C," p. 74, No. 11. 

(L Kings 17. A. M. 2942.) 
Saul said to David : Thou art 
not able to withstand this 
Philistine, nor to fight against 
him : for thou art hut a boy, but 
he is a warrior from his youth. 
And David said : The Lord 
who delivered me out of the 
paw of the lion, and out of the 
paw of the bear, he will deliver 
me out of the hand of this 



Philistine. And Saul said to 
David : Go, and the Lord be 
with thee. And David said to 
! the Philistine : Thou comest to 
I me with a sword, and with a 
spear, and with a shield : but I 
come to thee in the name of the 
Lord of hosts, the God of the 
armies of Israel, which thou 
hast defied this day, and the 
Lord will deliver thee into my 
hand, and I will slay thee, and 
take away thy head from thee : 
and I will give the carcasses of 
the army of the Philistines this 
day to the birds of the air, and 
to the beasts of the earth : that 
all the earth may know that 
there is a God in Israel. And 
all this assembl}^ shall know, 
that the Lord saveth not with 
sword and spear : for it is his 
battle, and he will deliver you 
into our hands. And when the 
Philistine arose and was com- 
ing, and drew nigh to meet 
David, David made haste, and 
ran to the fight to meet the 
Philistine. And he put his 
hand into his scrip, and took a 
stone, and cast it with the sling, 
and fetching it about struck 
the Philistine in the forehead : 



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and the stone was fixed in bis 
forehead, and he fell on his face 
upon the earth. And David 
prevailed over the Philistine, 
with a sling and a stone, and he 
struck, and slew the Philistine. 
And as David had no sword in 
his hand, he ran, and stood over 
the Philistine, and took his 
sword, and drew it out of the 
sheath, and slew him, and cut 
off his head. And the Philis- 
tines seeing that their cham- 
pion was dead, fled away. 

Q. "Which are the chief quali- 
ties of a good Confession ? 

See " L. of C," p. 68, Nos. 33, 34. 

Q. "When is our Confession 
humble ? 

See '• L. of C," p. 23, No. 7; p. 71, No. 5. 

Q. "When is our Confession 
sincere ? 

(Prov. 28.) He that hideth 
his sins, shall not prosper : but 
he that shall confess, and for- 
sake them, shall obtain mercy. 

Q. When is our Confession 
entire ? 

(Acts 4-5. A. D. 33.) With 
great power did the apostles 
give testimony of the resur- 
rection of Jesus Christ our 
Lord ; and great grace was in 
them all. For neither was there 
any one needy among them. 
For as many as were owners of 
lands or houses, sold them, and 
brought the price of the things 
they sold, and laid it down be- 
fore the feet of the apostles. 
And distribution was made to 
every one, according as he had 
need, but a certain man n^jned 



Ananias, with Saphira his wife, 
sold a piece of land, and by 
fraud kept back part of the 
price of the land, his wife be- 
ing privy thereunto : and bring- 
ing a certain part of it, laid it 
at the feet of the apostles. 
But Peter said : Ananias, why 
hath satan tempted thy heart, 
that thou shouldst lie to the 
Holy Ghost, and by fraud keep 
part of the price of the land ? 
Whilst it remained, did it not 
remain to thee ? and after it was 
sold, was it not in thy power ? 
Why hast thou conceived this 
thing in thy heart ? Thou hast 
not lied to men, but to God. 
And Ananias hearing these 
words, fell down, and gave up 
the ghost. And there came 
great fear upon all that heard 
it. And the young men rising 
up, removed him, and carrying 
him out, buried him. And it 
was about the space of three 
hours after, when his wife, not 
knowing what had happened, 
came in. And Peter said to 
her: Tell me woman, whether 
you sold the land for so much ? 
And she said : Yea, for so 
much. And Peter said unto 
her : Why have you agreed to- 
gether to tempt the Spirit of 
the Lord ? Behold the feet of 
them who have buried thy 
husband are at the door, and 
the}^ shall carry thee out. Im- 
mediately she fell down before 
his feet, and gave up the ghost. 
And the young men coming in, 
found her dead : and carried 
her out, apd buried her by her 
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great fear upon the whole 
church, and upon all that heard 
these things. 

Q. "What should we do if we 
cannot remember the num- 
ber of our sins ? 

(I. John 1.) This is the 
declaration which we have 
heard from him, and declare 
unto you : That God is Light, 
and in him there is no dark- 
ness. If we s^y that we have 
fellowship with him, and walk 
in darkness, we lie, aud do not 
the truth. But, if we walk in 
the light, as he also is in the 
light, we have fellowship one 
with another, and the blood of 
Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth 
us from all sin. If we say that 
we have no sin, we deceive our- 
selves, aud the truth is not in 
us. If we confess our sins, he 
is faithful and just, to forgive 
us our sins, and to cleanse us 
from all iniquity. If we say 
that we have not sinned, we 
make him a liar, and his word 
is not in us. 

Q. Is our Confession worthy 
if, without our fault, we 
forget to confess a mortal 
sin? 
See ''L. of C," p. 115, Cpt. vii., No. 2. 

Q. Is it a grievous offense 
wilfully to conceal a mortal 
sin in Confession ? 

See"L. ofC.,"p42, No.43. 

(II. Cor. 6.) Bear not the 
yoke with unbelievers, For what 
participation hath justice with 
injustice ? Or what fellowship 
hath light with darkness ? And 
what concord hath Christ with 



Belial? Or what part hath 
the faithful with the unbeliever ? 
And what agreement hath the 
temple of God with idols ? For 
you are the temple of the living 
God ; as God saith : / will 
dwell in them, and walk among 
them ; and I will he their God, 
and they shall be my people. 
Wherefore, Go out from among 
them, and be ye separate, saith 
the Lord, and touch not the un- 
clean thing : and I will receive 
you ; and I will be a Father to 
you ; and you shall be my sons 
and daughters, saith the Lord 
Almighty. 

(James 2.) Whosoever shall 
keep the whole law, but offend 
in one point, is become guilty 
of all. For he that said, thou 
shalt not commit adultery, said 
also, Thou shalt not kill. Now 
if thou do not commit adultery, 
but shalt kill, thou art become 
a transgressor of the law. 

Q. What must he do who has 
wilfully concealed a mortal 
sin in Confession ? 

See " L. of C," p. 92, No. 36. 

Q. "Why does the priest give 
us a penance after Confes- 
sion? 

See "L. of C.,"p- 74, No. 10. 

Q. Does not the Sacrament of 
Penance remit all punish- 
ment due to sin ? 

(II. Kings 12. A. M. 2970.) 
David said to Nathan : I have 
sinned agaiust the Lord. And 
Nathan said to David: The 
Lord also hath taken away thy 
sin : thou shalt not die. Never- 
theless, because thou hast 
given occasion to the enemies 



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of the Lord to blaspheme, for 
this thing, the child that is 
born to thee, shall surely die. 

Q. "Why does Grod require a 
temporal punishment as a 
satisfaction for sin ? 

See " L. of C.,"p. 82, No. 9. 

Q. "Which are the chief means 
by Tvhich -we satisfy G-od 
for the temporal punishment 
due to sin ? 

Bee ''L. of C," p. 33, Nos. 14-16; p. 51, 
No. 13. 

(Gen. 32. A. M. 2265.) The 
messengers returned to Jacob, 
saying : We came to Esau 
thy brother, and behold he 
Cometh with speed to meet 
thee with four hundred men. 
Then Jacob was greatly afraid ; 
and in his fear divided the peo- 
ple that was with him, and the 
flocks, and the sheep, and the 
oxen, and the camels, into two 
companies, saying : if Esau 
come to one company and de- 
stroy it, the other company 
that is left shall escape. And 
Jacob said ; O God of my 
father Abraham, and God of my 
father Isaac, Lord. Deliver 
me from the hand of mj^ brother 
Esau, for I am greatly afraid 
of him : lest perhaps he come, 
and kill the mother with the 
children. And when he had slept 
there that night, he set apart, 
of the things which he had, 
presents for his brother Esau, 
and he sent them by the hands 
of his servants, every drove by 
itself, and he said to his serv- 
ants : Go before me, and let 
there be a space between drove 
and drove. And he com- 



manded the first, saying : If 
thou meet my brother Esau, 
and he ask thee : Whose art 
thou ? or whither goest thou ? 
or whose are these before thee ? 
Thou shalt answer : Th}^ serv- 
ant Jacob's : he hath sent 
them as a present to m}- lord 
Esau : and he cometh after us. 
In like manner he commanded 
the second and the third, and 
all that followed the droves, 
saying : Speak ye the same 
words to Esau, when ye find 
him. And ye shall add : Thy 
servant Jacob himself also fol- 
loweth after us ; for he said : I 
will appease him with the 
presents that go before, and 
afterwards I will see him, per- 
haps he will be gracious to me. 
He remained alone : and behold 
a man wrestled with him till 
morning. And wiien he saw 
that he could not overcome 
him, he touched the sinew of 
his thigh, and forthwith it 
shrank. And he said to him : 
Let me go, for it is break of 
da3\ He answered : I will not 
let thee go except thou bless 
me. And he said : What is 
thy name ? He answered : Ja- 
cob. But he said : Thy name 
shall not be called Jacob, but 
Israel : for if thou hast been 
strong against God, how much 
more shalt thou prevail against 
men ? Then Esau ran to meet 
his brother, and embraced him : 
and clasping him fast about 
the neck, and kissing him, wept. 
And Esau said : What are the 
droves that I met ? He an- 
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vour before my lord. But be 
said : I bave plenty, my brotber 
keep what is tbine for tiijself. 
And Jacob said : Do not so I 
beseecb tbee, but if I bave 
found favour in tliy eyes, re- 
ceive a little present at my 
bands : for I bave seen tby 
face, as if I sbould bave seen 
tbe countenance of God ; be 
gracious to me, and take tbe 
blessing, wbicb I have brougbt 
tbee, and wbicb God batb given 
me, wbo givetb all tbings. He 
took it witb mucb ado at bis 
brother's earnest pressing bim. 

Q. TTT'hich are the chief spir- 
itual "works of mercy ? 

See " L. of C," p. 75, No. 14; p. 82. quest. 
1 ; p. 91, quest. 2 ; p. 35, No. 24. 

(Job 1. A. M. 2520.) There 
was a man in tbe land of Hus, 
whose name was Job. and that 
man was simple and upright, 
and fearing God, and avoiding 
eviL Now on a certain day 
when the sons of God came to 
stand before tbe Lord, Satan 
also was present among them. 
And the Lord said to bim : 
Whence comest thou ? And be 
answered and said : I have gone 
round about tbe earth, and 
walked through it. And tbe 
Lord said to bim : Hast thou 
considered mv servant Job, 
that there is none like him in 
tbe earth, a simple and upright 
man, and fearing God, and 
avoiding evil ? And Satan an- 
swering, said : Doth Job fear 
God in vain ? Hast not thou 
made a fence for him, and bis 
house, and all bis substance 
round about, blessed the works 



of bis bands, and bis possession 
batb increased on tbe earth ? 
But stretch forth thy band a 
little, and touch all that he 
hath, and see if be blessetb 
thee not to thy face. Then the 
Lord said to Satan : Behold, all 
that be bath is in th^^ hand ; 
only put not forth thy hand 
upon bis person. And Satan 
went forth from the presence 
of the Lord. Now upon a cer- 
tain day when bis sons and 
daughters were eating and 
drinking wine in tbe house of 
their eldest brotber, there came 
a messenger to Job, and said : 
The oxen were plowing, and 
the asses feeding beside them, 
and the Sabeans rushed in, and 
took all away , and slew tbe serv- 
ants witb the sword, and I 
alone bave escaped to tell thee. 
And while be w^as yet speak- 
ing, another came, and said : 
Tbe fire of God fell from beaven, 
and striking tbe sbeep and the 
servants, batb consumed them, 
and I alone bave escaped to 
tell tbee. And while he also 
was 3'et speaking, there came 
another, and said; Tbe Chal- 
deans made three troops, and 
bave fallen upon tbe camels, 
and taken them, moreover they 
have slain tbe servants with 
the sword, and I alone bave es- 
caped to tell tbee. He was 3'et 
speaking, and behold another 
came in, and said; Thy sons 
and daughters were eating and 
drinking wine in the bouse of 
their elder brotber, a violent 
wind came on a sudden from 
the side of the desert, and shook 



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the four corners of the bouse, 
and it fell upon thy children 
and they are dead, and I alone 
have escaped to tell thee. Then 
Job rose up, and rent bis gar- 
ments, and having shaven his 
head fell down upon the 
ground and worshipped, and 
said : Naked caine I out of 
my mother's womb, and naked 
shall I return thither: the 
Lord gave, and the Lord hath 
taken away ; as it bath pleased 
the Lord so it is done : 
blessed be the name of the 
Lord. The Lord also was 
turned at the penance of Job, 
when he prayed for his friends. 
And the Lord gave Job twice 
as much as he had before. And 
the Lord blessed the latter end 
of Job more than his beginning. 

See "L. of C," p.76, No. 16. 

(I. Kings 24. A. M. 2946.) 
There was a cave, into which 
Saul went, to sleep : now David 
and his men lay hid in the in- 
ner part of the cave. And the 
servants of David said to him : 
Behold the day, of which the 
Lord said to thee : I will de- 
liver thy enemy unto thee, that 
thou mayest do to him as it 
shall seem good in thy eyes. 
Then David arose, and secretly 
cut off the hem of Saul's robe. 
After which David's heart 
struck him, because he had cut 
off the hem of Saul's robe. And 
he said to his men : The Lord 
be merciful unto me, that I may 
do no such thing to my master 
the Lord's anointed, as to lay 
my hand upon him, because he 



is the Lord's anointed. And 
David stopped his men with 
his words, and suffered them 
not to rise against Saul : But 
Saul rising up out of the cave, 
went on his way. 

(I. Kings 26. A. M. 2947.) 
David and Abisai came to the 
people by night, and found 
Saul lying and sleeping in the 
tent, and his spear fixed in the 
ground at his head : and Ab- 
ner and the people sleeping 
round about him. And Abisai 
said to David : God hath shut 
up thy enem}^ this day into thy 
hands : now then I will run 
him through with my spear 
even to the earth at once, and 
there shall be no need of a 
second time. And David said 
to Abisai : Kill him not : for 
who shall put forth his hand 
against the Lord's anointed, 
and shall be guiltless ? And 
David said : As the Lord liveth, 
unless the Lord shall strike 
him, or his day shall come to 
die, or he shall go down to 
battle and perish : the Lord be 
merciful unto me, that I extend 
not my hand upon the Lord's 
anointed. But now take the 
spear, which is at his head, and 
the cup of water, and let us go. 

Q. "Which are the chief cor- 
poral works of mercy ? 

(Tobias A. M. 3283.) Tobias 
daily went among all his kin- 
dred, and comforted them, and 
distributed to ever}^ one as he 
was able, out of his goods . 
he fed the hungry, and gave 
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careful to bury the dead, and 
they that were slain. Now it 
happened one day, that being 
wearied with burying, he came 
to his house, and cast himself 
down by the wall and slept, 
and as he was sleeping he was 
made blind. Now Anna his 
wife went daily to weaving 
work, and she brought home 
what she could get for their 
living by the labour of her 
hands. Then Tobias sighed, 
and began to pray with tears. 
Now it happened on the same 
day, that Sara daughter of 
Kaguel, in Rages a city of the 
Medes, received a reproach 
from one of her father's serv- 
ant maids, because she had been 
given to seven husbands, and a 
devil named Asmodeus had 
killed them, so when she re- 
proved the maid for her fault, 
she answered her, saying : May 
we never see son, or daughter 
of thee upon the earth, thou 
murderer of thy husbands. 
Wilt thou kill me also, as thou 
hast already killed seven hus- 
bands ? At these words she 
went into an upper chamber of 
her house : and for three days 
and three nights did neither 
eat nor drink : but continu- 
ing in prayer with tears be- 
sought God, that he would de- 
liver her from this reproach. 
And it came to pass on the 
third day, the prayers of them 
both were heard in the sight of 
the glory of the most high 
God : and the holy Angel of 
the Lord, Raphael, was sent to 
heal them both, whose prayers 



at one time were rehearsed in 
the sight of the Lord. There- 
fore when Tobias thought that 
his prayer was heard that he 
might die, he called to him 
Tobias his son, and said to 
him ; Hear, my son, the words 
of my mouth, and lay them as 
a foundation in thy heart, bless 
God at all times : and desire 
of him to direct th}^ waj's, and 
that all thy counsels may abide 
in him. I tell thee also, my 
son, that I lent ten talents of 
silver, while thou wast yet a 
child, to Gabelus, in Rages a 
city of the Medes, and I have 
a note of his hand with me : 
but go now, and seek thee out 
some faithful man, to go with 
thee for his hire : that thou 
mayst receive it, while I 3^et 
live. ' Then Tobias going forth, 
found a beautiful young man, 
standing girded, and as it were 
ready to walk. And not know- 
ing that he was an Angel of 
God, he saluted him, and said: 
From whence art thou, good 
3'oung man ? But he answered : 
Of the children of Israel. And 
Tobias said to him : Knowest 
thou the way that leadeth to 
the country of the Medes ? 
And he answered : I know it : 
and I have often walked 
through all the ways thereof, 
and I have abode with Gabelus 
our brother, who dwelleth at 
Rages a city of the Medes, 
which is situate in the mount 
of Ecbatana. And Tobias said 
to him : Stay for me, I beseech 
thee, till I tell these same 
things to my father. Then 



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Tobias going in told all these 
things to his father. Upon 
which his father being in ad- 
miration, desired that he would 
come in unto him. And Tobias 
said to him ; Canst thou con- 
duct m^^ son to Gabelus at 
Rages, a city of the Medes ? 
and when thou shalt return, I 
will pay thee thy hire. And 
the Angel said to him : I will 
conduct him thither, and bring 
him back to thee. Then all 
things being ready, that were 
to be carried in their journey, 
Tobias bid his father and his 
mother farewell, and they set 
out both together. And Tobias 
went forward, and the dog fol- 
lowed him, and he lodged the 
first night by the river of Ti- 
gris. And he went out to wash 
his feet, and behold a monstrous 
fish came up to devour him. 
And Tobias being afraid of 
him, cried out with a loud 
voice, saying : Sir, he cometh 
upon me. And the Angel said 
to him : Take him by the gill, 
and draw him to thee. And 
when he had done so, he drew 
him out upon the land, and he 
began to pant before his feet. 
Then the Angel said to him : 
Take out the entrails of this 
fish, and lay up his heart, and 
his gall, and his liver for thee : 
for these are necessary for use- 
ful medicines. Then Tobias 
asked the Ansfel, and said to 
him : I beseech thee, brother 
Azarias, tell me what remedies 
are these things good for which 
thou hast bid me keep of the 
fish ? And the Angel, answer- 



ing, said to him : If thou put a 
little piece of its heart upon 
coals, the smoke thereof driveth 
away all kinds of devils, either 
from man or from woman, so 
that they come no more to 
them. And the gall is good 
for anointing the eyes, in which 
there is a white speck, and they 
shall be cured. And Tobias 
said to him : Where wilt thou 
that we lodge? And the An- 
gel answering, said : Here is 
one whose name is Raguel, a 
near kinsman of thy tribe, and 
he hath a daughter named Sara, 
but he hath no son nor any 
other daughter beside her. All 
his substance is due to thee, 
and thou must take her to wife. 
Then Tobias answered, and 
said : I hear that she hath been 
given to seven husbands, and 
they all died : moreover I have 
heard, that a devil killed them. 
Then the Angel Raphael said 
to him : Hear me, and I will 
shew thee who they are, over 
whom the devil can prevail. 
For they who in such manner 
receive matrimon}- , as to shut 
out God from themselves, and 
from their mind, and to give 
themselves to their lust, over 
them the devil hath power. 
But thou when thou shalt take 
her, go into the chamber, and 
for three days give thyself to 
nothing else but to prayers 
with her. And on that night 
lay the liver of the fish on the 
fire, and the devil shall be 
driven awsiy. And they went 
into Raguel, and Raguel re- 
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Raguel said to them : Do you 
know Tobias my43rother ? And 
they said : We know him. And 
when 'he was speaking many 
good things of him, the Angel 
said to Rasruel : Tobias con- 
cerning whom thou inquirest is 
this young man's father. And 
Raguel went to him, and kissed 
him with tears, and Anna his 
wife, and Sara their daughter 
wept. And when he desired 
them to sit down to dinner, 
Tobias said : I will not eat nor 
drinli here this day, unless thou 
first grant me my petition, and 
promise to give me Sara thy 
daughter. Now when Raguel 
heard this he was afraid, know- 
ing what had happened to those 
seven husbands. The Angel said 
to him : Be not afraid to give 
her to this man, for to him who 
feareth God is thy daughter 
due to be his wife : therefore 
another could not have her. 
Then Raguel said : I doubt not 
but God hath regarded my \ 
prayers and tears in his sight. 
And taking the right hand of 
his daughter, he gave it into 
the riorht hand of Tobias, say- 
ing : The God of Abraham, and 
the God of Isaac, and the God 
of Jacob be with you, and may 
he join you together, and fulfil 
his blessing in you. And To- 
bias remembering the AngePs 
word, took out of his bag part 
of the liver and laid it upon 
burning coals. Then the An- 
gel Raphael took the devil, and 
bound him in the desert of 
upper Egypt. Then Raphael 
took four of RaguePs servants, 



and two camels, and went to 
Rages the city of the Medes : 
and finding Gabelus, gave him 
his note of hand, and received 
of him all the money. And he 
told him concerning Tobias the 
son of Tobias, all that had 
been done : and made him come 
with him to the wedding. But 
as Tobias made longer stay 
upon occasion of the marriage, 
Tobias his father was solicitous, 
saying : Why thinkest thou 
doth my son tarry, or why is 
he detained there? Is Gabelus 
dead thinkest thou, and no man 
will pay him the money. And 
he began to be exceeding sad, 
both he and Anna his wife with 
him : and they began both to 
weep together : because their 
son did not ret^urn to them on 
the day appointed. But Raguel 
said to his son-in-law : Stay 
here, and I will send a mes- 
senger to Tobias thy father, 
that thou art in health. And 
Tobias said to him ; I know 
that my father and mother 
now count the days, and tlieir 
spirit is grievously afflicted 
within them. And when Ra- 
guel had pressed Tobias with 
many words, and he by no 
means would hearken to him, 
he delivered Sara unto him, 
admonishing her to honour her 
father and mother-in-law, to 
love her husband, to take care 
of the family, to govern the 
house, and to behave herself 
iri'eprehensibly. And ns they 
were returning Raphnel said 
to Tobias: As soon as thou 
shalt come into thy house, 



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forthwith adore the Lord thy 
God : and giving thanks to him, 
go to tliy father, and kiss him. 
And immediately anoint his 
eyes with this gall of the fish, 
w^iich thou carriest with thee. 
Then the dog, which had been 
with them in the wa}', ran be- 
fore, and coming as if he had 
brought the news, shewed his 
joy ^y his fawning and wag- 
ging his tail. And his father 
that was blind, rising up, began 
to run stumbling with his feet : 
and giving a servant his hand, 
went to meet his son. Then 
Tobias taking of the gall of the 
fish, anointed his father's eyes. 
And he stayed about half an 
hour : and a white skin began 
to come out of his eyes, like 
the skin of a^i ^gg- And To- 
bias took hold of it, and drew 
it from his eyes, and immedi- 
ately he recovered his sight. 
And they glorified God, both he 
and his wife and all that knew 
him. Then Tobias called to 
him his son, and said to him : 
What can we give to this ho\y 
man, that is come with thee ? 
So the father and the son call- 
ing him, took him aside: and 
began to desire him that he 
would vouchsafe to accept of 
half of all things that they had 
brought. Then he said to them 
secretly : Bless ye the God of 



heaven, give glovy to him in 
the sight of all that live, because 
he hath shewn his mercy to you. 
When thou didst pr[f^ with 
tears, and didst bury the dead, 
and didst leave thy dinner, and 
hide the dead by day in thy 
house, and bury them by night, 
I offered tliy pra3'er to the 
Lord. And because tliou wast 
acceptable to God, it w^as neces- 
sary that temptation should 
prove thee. And now the Lord 
hath sent me to heal thee, and 
to deliver Sara th}^ son's wife 
from the devil. For I am the 
Angel Raphael, one of the seven , 
w4io stand before the Lord. 
And when they had heard these 
things, they were troubled, and 
being seized with fear they fell 
upon the ground on their face. 
And the Angel said to them : 
Peace be to you, fear not. For 
when I was wuth 3'ou, I was 
there hy the will of God : bless 
ye him, and sing praises to him. 
I seemed indeed to eat and to 
drink with you : but I use an 
invisible meat and drink, which 
cannot be seen by men. It is 
time therefore that I return to 
him, that sent me: but bless 
ye God, and publish all his 
wonderful works. And when 
he had said these things, he 
was taken from their sight, and 
they could see him no more. 



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LESSON TWENTIETH. 



109 



ON THE MANNER OF MAKING A GOOD CONFESSION. 



Q. What should we do on 
entering the confessional ? 

(I. Esdras9.A.M. 3538.) At 
tbe evening sacrifice I rose up 
from my affliction, and having 
rent my mantle and my gar- 
ment, I fell upon my iinees, and 
spread out my bands to tiie 
Lord my God, and said : My 
God I am confounded and 
ashamed to lift up my face to 
thee : for our iniquities are 
multiplied over our heads, and 
our sins are grown up even unto 
heaven, from the days of our 
fathers : and we ourselves also 
have sinned grievously unto 
this day, and for our iniquities 
we and our kings, and our 
priests have been delivered into 
the hands of the kings of the 
lands, and to the sword, and to 
captivitj' , and to spoil, and to 
confusion of face, as it is at 
this day. And now as a lit- 
tle, and for a moment has our 
prayer been made before the 
Lord our God, that our God 
would enlighten our e^^es, and 
would give us a little life in our 
bondage. For we are bondmen, 
and in our bondage our God 
hath not forsaken us, but hath 
extended mercy upon us. (And 
now, O our God, what shall we 
say after this?) for we have 
forsaken thy commandments, 
which thou hast commanded by 
the hand of thy servants the 
prophets, sa3nng : The land 
which you go to possess, is an 



unclean land, according to the 
uncleanness of the people, and 
of other lands, with their abom- 
inations, who have filled it from 
mouth to mouth with their 
filth. And after all that is come 
upon us, for our most wicked 
deeds, and our great sin, seeing 
that thou our God hast saved 
us from our iniquity, and hast 
given us a deliverance as at 
this, day, that we should not 
turn away, nor break thy com- 
mandments. Art thou angry 
with us unto utter destruction, 
not to leave us a remnant to be 
saved ? O Lord God of Israel, 
thou art just: for we remain 
yet to be saved as at this day. 
Behold we are before thee in 
our sin, for there can be no 
standing before thee in this 
matter. 

Q. "Which are the first things 
^we should tell the priest in 
Confession ? 

See"L. of C," p. 74, No. 10. 

Q. After telling* the time of 
our last Confession and 
Communion -what should 
-we do ? 

(James 5.) Confess therefore 
your sins one to another : and 
pray one for another, that you 
may be saved. 

Q. "WTiat must "we do "when 
the confessor asks us ques- 
tions ? 

(Eccltus. 4.) Be not ashamed 
to confess thy sins, but submit 
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sin. For there is a shame that 
bringeth sin, and there is a 
shame that bringeth glory and 



grace. 



Q. What should "we do after 
telling" our sins? 

(Prov. 13.) Poverty and 
shame to him that refuseth in- 
struction : but he that 34eldeth 
to reproof, shall be glorified. 

Q. Hew should -we end our 

Confession ? 

(Eph. 4.) Put off, accord- 
ing to former conversation, 
the old man, who is corrupted 
according to the desire of 
error. And be renewed in the 
spirit of 3^our mind : and put 
on the new man, who according 
to God is created injustice and 
holiness of truth. 



Q. What should we do while 
the priest is giving us ab- 
solution ? 

(II. Peter 2.) By whom a 
man is overcome, of the same 
also he is the slave. For if, 
flying from the pollutions of 
the world, through the knowl- 
edge of our Lord and Saviour 
Jesus Christ, they he again en- 
tangled in them and overcome : 
their latter state is become nn- 
to them worse than the former. 
For it had been better for them 
not to have known the way of 
justice, than after they have 
known it, to turn back from 
that holy commandment which 
was delivered to them. For, 
that of the true proverb has 
happened to them : The dog is 
returned to his vomit : and. The 
sow that was washed, to her 
wallowing in the mire. 



LESSON TWENTY-SECOND. 



ON THE HOLY EUCHARIST. 



Q. What is the Holy Euchar- 
ist? 

(Ex. 26. A. M. 2513.) The 
children of Israel said to 
Moses : Would to God we had 
died by the hand of the Lord 
in the land of Egypt, when we 
sat over the flesh-pots, and ate 
bread to the full. Why have 
you brought us into this desert ? 
And the Lord spoke to Moses, 
saying : I have heard the mur- 
muring of the children of Is- 
rael : say to them : In the even- 



ing you shall eat flesh, and in 
the morning you shall have 
your fill of bread : and you shall 
know that I am the Lord your 
God. So it came to pass in the 
evening, that quails coming up, 
covered the camp : and in the 
morning a dew lay round about 
the camp. And when it had 
covered the face of the earth, it 
appeared in the wilderness 
small, and as it were beaten 
with a pestle, like unto the hoar- 
frost on the ground. And 



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when the children of Israel saw 
it, they said one to another : 
Manhu ! which signifieth ; 
What is this 1 for they knew 
not what it was. And Moses 
said to them : This is the bread, 
which the Lord hath given 3^011 
to eat. This is the word, that 
the Lord hath commanded : 
Let every one gather of it as 
much as is enough to eat : a 
gomor for every man, according 
to the number of your souls 
that dwell in a tent, so shall 
you take of it. And the chil- 
dren of Israel did so : and they 
gathered, one more, another 
less. And they measured by 
the measure of a gomor: nei- 
ther had he more that had gath- 
ered more : nor did he find less 
that had provided less : but 
every one had gathered, accord- 
ing to what they were able to 
eat. And the house of Israel 
called the name thereof Manna : 
and it was like coriander seed 
white, and the taste thereof like 
to flour with honey. And Moses 
said : This is the word, which 
the Lord hath commanded : 
Fill a gomor of it, and let it be 
kept unto generations to come 
hereafter, that they may know 
the bread, wherewith I fedj^ou 
in the wilderness, when you 
were brought forth out of the 
land of Egypt. And Moses 
said to Aaron : Take a vessel, 
and put manna into it, as much 
as a gomor can hold : and la}^ 
it up before the Lord to keep 
unto your generations, as the 
Lord commanded Moses. And 
Aaron put it in the tabernacle 



to be kept. And the children 
of Israel ate manna forty 
years, till they came to a habit- 
able land : with this meat were 
they fed, until they reached the 
borders of the land of Chanaan. 
(iy.Kings4.A.M.3110.) A 
certain man came from Baalsal- 
isa bringing to the man of 
God bread of the first fruits, 
twenty loaves of barley, and 
new corn in his scrip. And he 
said : Give to the people, that 
they may eat. And his servant 
answered him : How much is 
this, that I should set it before 
a hundred men? He said 
again : Give to the people, that 
they may eat : for thus saith 
the Lord : They shall eat, and 
there shall be left. So he set it 
before them : and they eat, and 
there was left according to the 
word of the Lord. 

Q. "When did Christ institute 
the Holy Eucharist ? 

See '♦ L. of C," p. 99, Nos. 1, 2. 

(Gen. 14. A. M. 2092.) 
Which when Abram had heard, 
to wit, that his brother Lot 
was taken, he numbered of the 
servants born in his house, 
three hundred and eighteen 
well appointed: and pursued 
them to Dan. And dividing 
his company, he rushed upon 
them in the night : and de- 
feated them, and pursued them 
as far as Hoba, which is on the 
left hand of Damascus. And 
he brought back all the sub- 
stance, and Lot his brother, 
with his substance, the women 
also and the people. And the 



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king of Sodom went out to 
meet him, after be returned 
from the slaughter of Chodor- 
lahomor, and of the kings that 
were with him in the vale of 
Save, which is the king's vale. 
But Melehisedech the king of 
Salem, bringing forth bread 
and wine, for he was the priest 
of the most high God, blessed 
him, and said : Blessed be 
Abram by the most high God, 
who created heaven and earth. 
And blessed be the most high 
God, by whose protection the 
enemies are in thy hands. And 
he gave him the tithes of all. 

Q. Who -were present -when 
our Lord, instituted the 
Holy Eucharist ? 

See ''L. of C," p. 49, No. 6; p. 99, No. 2. 

Q. How did our Lord insti- 
tute the Holy Eucharist ? 

See *' L. of C," p. 99, Nos. 1, 2, 3; p. 100, 
No. 4. 

Q. "What happened when our 
Lord said, This is my body ; 
this is my blood ? 

8ee "L. or C," p. 43, No. 48. 

Q. Is Jesus Christ whole and 
entire both under the form 
of bread and under the form 
of wine ? 

See " L. of C," p. 46, No. 51 ; p. 120, No. 6. 

Q. Did anything remain of 
the bread and wine after 
their substance had been 
changed into the substance 
of the body and blood of 
our Lord ? 

(I. Cor. 10.) I speak as to 
wise men : judge ye 3'ourselves 
what I say. The chalice of 
benediction, which we bless, is 
it not the communion of the 



blood of Christ ? And the 
bread, which we break, is it not 
the partaking of the body of 
the Lord ? For we, being many, 
are one bread, one body, all 
that partake of one bread. 

Q. What do you mean by 
the appearances of bread 
and w^ine ? 

See ''L. of C.,"p. 18, No. 3. 

Q. What is the change of the 
bread and wine into the 
body and blood of our Lord 
called ? ^ 

(Ex. 4. A. M. 2513.) Moses 
said to God : Who am I that 
I should go to Pharao, and 
should bring forth the children 
of Israel out of Egypt? And 
he said to him : I will be with 
thee : and this thou shalt have 
for a sign, that I have sent 
thee: take of the river water, 
and pour it out upon the dry 
land, and whatsoever thou 
drawest out of the river, shall 
be turned into blood. 

Q. How was the substance 
of the bread and w^ine 
changed into the substance 
of the body and blood of 
Christ. 

(I. Cor. 11.) I have received 
of the Lord that which also I 
delivered unto you, that the 
Lord Jesus, the same night in 
whicli he was betrayed, took 
bread, and giving thanks, broke, 
and said : Take 3'e, and eat : 
this is my body, which shall be 
delivered for you : this do for 
the commemoration of me. In 
like manner also the chalice, 
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This chalice is the new testa- 
ment in my blood ; this do ye, 
as often as you shall drink, for 
the oommemoration of me. 
For as often as you shall eat 
this bread, and drmk the chal- 
ice, you shall shew the death of 
the Lord, until he come. 

Q. Does this change of bread 
and -wine into the body and 
blood of Christ continue to 
be made in the Church ? 

(Acts 2.) They were perse- 
vering in the doctrine of the 
Apostles, and in the communi- 
cation of the Breaking of Bread. 

(lY. Kings 4. A. M. 3109.) 
Now a certain woman of the 
wives of the prophets cried to 
Eliseus, saying : Thy servant 
my husband is dead, and thou 
knowest that thy servant w^as 
one that feared God, and be- 
hold the creditor is come to 
take away my two sons to 
serve him. And Eliseus said 
to her: What wilt thou have 
me do for thee ? Tell me, what 
hast thou in thy house ? And 
she answered : I thy handmaid 
have nothing in my house but 
a little oil, to anoint me. And 
be said to her : Go, borrow of 
all thy neighbours empty ves- 
sels not a few. And go in, and 



shut thy door, when thou art 
within, and thy sons : and pour 
out thereof into all those ves- 
sels : and when they are full 
take them away. So the wom- 
an went, and shut the door 
upon her, and upon her sons : 
they brought her the vessels, 
and she poured in. And when 
the vessels were full, she said 
to her son : Bring me yet a 
vessel. And he answered : I 
have no more. And the oil 
stood. And she came, and told 
the man of God. And he said : 
Go, sell the oil, and pay thy 
creditor : and thou and thy 
sons live of the rest. 

Q. When did Christ give His 
priests the power to change 
bread and wine into His 
body and blood ? 

See "L. of C," p. 100, No. 4. 

Q. How do the priests exer- 
cise this power of changing 
bread and w^ine into the 
body and blood of Christ ? 

(I. Cor. 11.) This do ye, as 
often as 3'ou shall drink, for 
the commemoration of me. 
For as often as 3'ou shall eat 
this bread, and drink the chal- 
ice, you shall shew the death 
of the Lord, until he come. 



LESSOjS^ TWENTY-THIRD. 

ON THE ENDS FOR WHICH THE HOLY EUCHARIST WAS INSTITUTED. 



Q. "Why did Christ institute 
the Holy Eucharist ? 

(Num. 14. A. M. 2514.) The 

8 



whole multitude crying wept 
that night. And all the chil- 
dren of Israel murmured 



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against Moses and Aaron, say- 
ing : Would God that we had 
died in Egypt : and would God 
we may die in this vast wilder- 
ness, and that the Lord may 
not bring us into this land, lest 
we fall by the sword, and our 
wives and children be led away 
captives. Is it not better to 
return into Egypt ? And they 
said one to another: Let us ap- 
point a captain, and let us re- 
turn into Egypt. And Moses 
sent twelve to view the land 
of Chanaan, and said to them : 
Go you up by the south side. 
And when you shall come to 
the mountains, view the land, 
of what sort it is: and the 
people that are the inhabitants 
thereof, whether they be strong 
or weak: few in number or 
many : and when they were 
gone up, they viewed the land 
from the desert of Sin, unto 
Rohob as you enter into Emath, 
And going forward as far as 
the torrent of the cluster of 
grapes, they cut off a branch 
with its cluster of grapes, 
which two men carried upon a 
lever. They took also of the 
pomegranates and of the figs 
of that place: and came to 
Moses and Aaron and to all 
the assembly of the children of 
Israel to the desert of Pharan, 
which is in Cades. And speak- 
ing to them and to all the mul- 
titude, they shewed them the 
fruits of the land : and they re- 
lated and said : We came into 
the land to which thou sentest 
us, which in very deed floweth 
with milk and honey as may 



be known by these fruits : but 
it hath very strong inhabitants, 
and the cities are great and 
walled. We saw there the race 
of Enac. In the mean time 
Caleb, to still the murmuring 
of the people that rose against 
Moses, said : Let us go up 
and possess the land, for we 
shall be able to conquer it. 
But the others, that had been 
with him, said: No, we are 
not able to go up to this peo- 
ple, because they are stronger 
than we. And they spoke ill 
of the land, which they had 
viewed, before the children of 
Israel, saying : The land which 
we have viewed, devoureth its 
inhabitants: the people, that 
we beheld, are of a tall stature. 
There we saw certain monsters 
of the sons of Enac, of the 
giant-kind : in comparison of 
whom, we seemed like locusts. 

(IIL Kings 19. A. M, 3097.) 
Achab told Jezabel all that 
Elias had done, and how he had 
slain all the prophets with the 
sword. Then Elias was afraid, 
and rising up he went whither- 
soever he had a mind : and he 
came to Bersabee of Juda, and 
left his servant there, and he 
went forward, one day's jour- 
ney into the desert. And when 
he was there, and sat under a 
juniper tree, he requested for 
his soul that he might die, and 
said : It is enough for me. 
Lord, take away my soul : for 
I am no better than my fathers. 
And he cast himself down, and 
slept in the shadow of the juni- 
per tree : and behold an angel 



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of the Lord touched him, and 
said to him : Arise and eat. 
He looked, and behold there 
was at his head a hearth-cake, 
and a vessel of water : and he 
eat and drank, and he fell 
asleep again. And the angel 
of tiie Lord came again the 
second time, and touched him, 
and said to him : Arise, eat : 
for thou hast yet a great way 
to go. And he arose, and eat, 
and drank, and walked in the 
strength of that food forty 
days and forty nights, unto the 
mount of God, Horeb. 

Q. How are we united to 
Jesus Christ in the Holy 
Eucharist ? 

See " L. of C," p. 104. No. 4. 

Q. WTiat is Holy Oomniun- 
ion? 

See " L. of C," p. 46, No. 51. 

Q. What is necessary to 
make a good Communion ? 

See " L. of C," p. 93, No. 3. 

(Acts 20. A. D. 68.) On 
the first day of the week, when 
we were assembled to break 
bread, Paul discoursed with 
them, being to depart on the 
morrow : and he continued his 
speech until midnight. And 
there was a great number of 
lamps in the upper chamber 
where we were assembled. And 
a certain young man named 
Eutychus, sitting on the win- 
dow, being oppressed with a 
deep sleep (as Paul was long 
preaching,) by occasion of his 
sleep fell from the third loft 
down, and was taken up dead. 
To whom, when Paul had gone 



down, he laid himself upon 
him, and embracing him, said : 
Be not troubled, for his soul is 
in him. Then going up, and 
breaking bread and tasting, and 
having talked a long time to 
them, until daylight, so he de- 
parted. And they brought the 
youth alive, and were not a 
little comforted. 

(I. Cor. 10.) The things 
which the heathens sacrifice, 
they sacrifice to devils, and not 
to God. And I would not that 
3^ou should be made partakers 
with devils. You cannot drink 
the chalice of the Lord, and 
the chalice of devils : you 
cannot be partakers of the table 
of the Lord, and of the table of 
devils. 

(I. Kings 2L A. M. 2944.) 
David came to Nobe to Achim- 
elech the priest : and Achime- 
lech was astonished at David's 
coming. And David said to 
Achimelech the priest: The 
king hath commanded me a bus- 
iness, and said : Let no man 
know the thing for which thou 
art sent by me, and what manner 
of commands I have given thee : 
and I have appointed my serv- 
ants to such and such a place. 
Now therefore if thou have 
anything at hand, though it 
were but five loaves, give me, 
or whatsoever thou canst find. 
And the priest answered David, 
saying : I have no common 
bread at hand, but only holy 
bread, if the .young men be 
clean. And David answered the 
priest, and said to him : Truly, 
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from yesterday and the da}^ be- 
fore, when we came out, and 
the vessels of the young men 
were holy. Now this way is 
defiled, but it shall also be sanc- 
tified this day in the vessels. 
The priest therefore gave him 
hallowed bread : for there was 
no bread there, but only the 
loaves of proposition, which 
had been taken away from be- 
fore the face of the Lord, that 
hot loaves might be set up. 

Q. Does he who received 
Communion in mortal sin j 
receive the body and blood 
of Christ ? 

See" L. of C," p. 86, No. 17. 

(I. Cor. 11.) Let a man 
prove himself: and so let him 
eat of that bread, and drink of 
the chalice. For he that eateth 
and drinketh unworthily, eateth 
and drinketh judgment to him- 
self, not discerning the body of 
the Lord. 

Q. Is it enough to be free 
from mortal sin to receive 
plentifully the graces of 
Holy Communion ? 

See "L. of C," p. 101, No. 5. 

Q. "What is the fast neces- 
sary for Holy Communion ? 

(Acts 13. A. D. 42.) Now 
there were in the church which 
was at Antioch, prophets and 
doctors, among whom was 



Barnabas, and Simon, who was 
called Niger, and Lucius of 
Cyrene, and Manahen, who was 
the foster-brother of Herod 
the tetrarch, and Saul. And 
as they were ministering to the 
Lord, and fasting, the Holy 
Ghost said to them : Separate 
me Saul and Barnabas, for the 
work whereunto I have taken 
them. Then they, fasting and 
praying, and imposing their 
hands upon them, sent them 
away. 

Q. Is any one ever allovred to 
receive Holy Communion 
vrhen not fasting ? 

See "L. of C," p. 116, No. 8. 

Q. "When are -we bound to 
receive Holy Communion ? 

See "L. of C," p. 67, No. 31. 

Q. Is it well to receive Holy 
Communion often ? 

See '' L. of C," p. 125, No. 20; p. 127, No. 
26. 

Q. What should vre do after 
Holy Communion ? 

See"L of C," p. 101, No. 6. 

(Eph. 5.) Be ye filled with 
the holy Spirit, speaking to 
yourselves in psalms, and 
hymns, and spiritual canticles, 
singing and making melody in 
your hearts to the Lord; giv- 
ing thanks always for all things, 
in the name of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, to God and the Father. 



CATECHISM. 
LESSON TWENTY-FOURTH. 



ir 



ON THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 



Q. "When and -where are the 
bread and wine changed 
into the body and blood of 

Christ ? 

See •' L. of C," p. 100, No. 4; p. 120, No. 6. 

Q. What is the Mass ? 

(Mai. 1.) Beseech 3^e the 
face of God, that he may have 
mercy on you, (for by your 
hand hath this been done,) if by 
any means he will receive your 
faces, saith the Lord of hosts. 
Who is there among you, that 
will shut the doors, and will 
kindle the fire on my altar 
gratis ? I have no pleasure in 
you, saith the Lord of hosts: 
and I will not receive a gift of 
your hand. For from the rising 
of the sun even to the going 
down, my name is great among 
the Gentiles, and in every place 
there is sacrifice, and there is 
offered to my name a clean ob- 
lation : for my name is great 
among the Gentiles, saith the 
Lord of hosts. 

Q. "What is a sacrifice ? 

(Gen. 4. A. M. 2.) It came 
to pass after many days, that 
Cain offered, of the fruits of the 
earth, gifts to the Lord. Abel 
also offered of the firstlings of 
his flock, and of their fat ; and 
the Lord had respect to Abel, 
and to his offerings. 

(Gen. 8.) Noe built an altar 
unto the Lord : and taking of 
all cattle and fowls that were 
clean, offered holocausts upon 



the altar. And the Lord sraelled 
a sweet savour, and said : I will 
no more curse the earth for the 
sake of man : for the imagi- 
nation and thought of man's 
heart are prone to evil from his 
youth : therefore I will no more 
destroy every living soul as I 
have done. All the days of the 
earth, seed time and harvest, 
cold and heat, summer and 
winter, night and day, shall not 
cease. 

Q. Is the Mass the same sac- 
rifice as that of the Cross ? 

(Ex. 12. A. M. 2513.) The 
Lord said to Moses and Aaron 
in the land of Egypt : Speak 
\^e to the whole assembly of the 
children of Israel, and say to 
them : On the tenth day of this 
month let every man take a 
lamb by their families and 
houses. But if the number be 
less than may sufldce to eat the 
lamb, he shall take unto him his 
neighbour that joineth to his 
house, according to the number 
of souls which may be enough 
to eat the lamb. And it shall 
be a lamb without blemish, a 
male, of one year : according to 
which rite also you shall take a 
kid. And you shall keep it 
until the fourteenth day of this 
month : and the whole multi- 
tude of the children of Israel 
shall sacrifice it in the evening. 
And dip a bunch of hyssop in 
the blood that is at the door. 



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and sprinkle the transom of the 
door therewith, and both the 
door cheeks : let none of you 
go out of the door of his house 
till morning. For the Lord 
will pass through striking the 
Egyptians : and when he shall 
see the blood on the transom, 
and on both the posts, he will 
pass over the door of the house, 
and not suffer the destroyer to 
come into your houses and to 
hurt you. And you shall eat 
the flesh that night roasted at 
the fire, and unleavened bread 
with wild lettuce. Neither shall 
there remain any thing of it un- 
til morning. If there be any 
thing left, you shall burn it 
with fire. In one house shall 
it be eaten, neither shall you 
carry forth of the flesh thereof 
out of the house, neither shall 
you break a bone thereof. And 
thus you shall eat it : you shall 
gird your reins, and you shall 
have shoes on your feet, hold- 
ing staves in your hands, and 
you shall eat in haste : for it is 
the Phase (that is the Passage) 
of the Lord. And I will pass 
through the land of Egypt that 
night, and will kill every first- 
born in the land of Egypt both 
man and beast : and against all 
the gods of Egypt I will exe- 
cute judgments : I am the Lord. 
And the blood shall be unto 
you for a sign in the houses 
where you shall be : and I shall 
see the blood, and shall pass over 
you : and the plague shall not 
be upon you to destroy you, 
when I shall strike the land of 
Egypt. And this day shall be 



for a memorial to you : and you 
shall keep it a feast to the Lord 
in your generations with an 
everlasting observance. All 
the assembly of the children of 
Israel shall keep it. And if 
any stranger be willing to dwell 
among you, and to keep the 
Phase of the Lord, all his males 
shall first be circumcised, and 
then shall he celebrate it ac- 
cording to the manner : and he 
shall be as he that is born in 
the land : but if any man be 
uncircumcised, he shall not eat 
thereof. Thou shalt keep this 
thing as a law for thee and thy 
children for ever. 

Q. Ho"w is the Mass the same 
sacrifice as that of the 
Cross ? 

(L Cor. 11: 26.) As often 
as you shall eat this Bread, and 
drink the Chalice, you shall 
show the death of the Lord, 
until He come. 

Q. "What -were the ends for 
which the sacrifice of the 
Cross was offered ? 

(L Kings 7. A. M. 2888.) 
The Philistines heard that the 
children of Israel were gathered 
together to Masphath, and the 
lords of the Philistines went up 
against Israel. And when the 
children of Israel heard this, 
they were afraid of the Philis- 
tines. And they said to Sam- 
uel : cease not to cry to the 
Lord our God for us, that he 
may save us out of the hand of 
the Philistines. And Samuel 
took a sucking lamb, and offered 
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Lord ; and Samuel cried to the 
Lord for Israel, and the Lord 
heard him. And it came to 
pass, when Samuel was offering 
the holocaust, the Philistines 
began the battle against Israel : 
but the Lord thundered with 
a great thunder on that day 
upon the Philistines, and terri- 
fied them, and they were over- 
thrown before the face of Israel. 



Q. Is there any difference be- 
t"ween the sacrifice of the 
Cross and the sacrifice of 
the Mass ? 

(Rom. 6.) Now if we be 
dead with Christ, we belicA^e 
that we shall live also together 
with Christ: knowing that 
Christ rising again from the 
dead, dieth now no more, death 
shall no more have dominion 
over him. For in that he died 
to sin, he died once; but in 
that he liveth, he liveth unto 
God : so you also reckon, that 



you are dead to sin, but alive 
unto God, in Christ Jesus our 
Lord. 

Q. How should we assist at 
Mass? 

(Ex. 19. A. M. 2513.) Mo- 
ses told the words of the people 
to the Lord. And he said to 
him : Go to the people, and 
sanctify them to-day, and to- 
morrow, and let them wash 
their garments. And let them 
be ready against the third day : 
for on the third day the Lord 
will come down in the sight of 
all the people upon mount 
Sinai, and thou shalt appoint 
certain limits to the people 
round about, and thou shalt say 
to them : Take heed you go not 
up into the mount, and that ye 
touch not the borders thereof: 
every one that toucheth the 
mount dying he shall die. 

Q. Which is the best manner 
of hearing Mass ? 

See "L. of C," p. 80, No. 4. 



LESSON TWENTY-FIFTH. 



ON EXTREME UNCTION AND HOLY ORDERS. 



Q. "What is the Sacrament of 
Extreme Unction? 

See ''L. of C," p. 42, No. 46. 

Q. "When should vre receive 
Extreme Unction? 

(Eccltus. 38.) Honour the 
physician for the need thou 
hast of him : for the most High 
hath created him. For all heal- 
ing is from God, and he shall 
receive gifts of the king. The 



skill of the physician shall 
lift up his head, and in the sight 
of great men he shall be praised. 
The most High hath created 
medicines out of the earth, and 
a wise man will not abhor them. 
Was not bitter water made 
sweet with wood? The vir- 
tue of these things is come 
to the knowledge of men, 
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knowledge to men, that he may | 
be honoured in his wonders. By 
these he shall cure and shall al- 
lay their pains, and of these the 
apothecary shall make sweet 
confections, and shall make up 
ointments of health, and of his 
works there shall be no end. 
My son, in thy sickness neglect 
not thyself, but pray to the 
Lord, and he shall heal thee. 
Turn away from sin and order 
thy hands aright, and cleanse 
thy heart from all offence. Give 
a sweet savour, and a memorial 
of fine flour, and make a fat of- 
fering, and then give place to 
the physician. For the Lord 
created him : and let him not 
depart from thee, for his works 
are necessary. For there is a 
time when thou must fall into 
their hands : and they shall be- 
seech the Lord, that he would 
prosper what they give for ease 
and remedy, for their conversa- 
tion. He that sinneth in the 
sight of his Maker, shall fall 
into the hands of the physician. 
My son, shed tears over the 
dead, and begin to lament as if 
thou hadst suffered some great 
harm, and according to judg- 
ment cover his body, and neg- 
lect not his burial. And for 
fear of being ill spoken of weep 
bitterly for a day, and then 
comfort thyself in thy sadness. 
And make mourning for him 
according to his merit for a day, 
or two, for fear of detraction. 

Q. Should "we "wait until "we 
are in extreme danger be- 
fore ^we receive Extreme 
Unction ? 



(James 5.) Is any man sick 
among you ? Let him bring in 
the priests of the church, and 
let them pray over him, anoint- 
ing him with oil in the name of 
the Lord. And the prayer of 
faith shall save the sick man : 
and the Lord shall raise him 
up : and if he be in sins, they 
shall be forgiven him. Con- 
fess therefore your sins one to 
another : and pray one for an- 
other, that you may be saved. 
For the continual prayer of a 
just man availeth much. Elias 
was a man passible like unto 
us : and with prayer he prayed 
that it might not rain upon the 
earth, and it rained not for 
three years and six months. 
And he prayed again : and the 
heaven gave rain, and the earth 
brought forth her fruit. My 
brethren, if any of you err from 
the truth, and one convert him : 
he must know that he who 
causeth a sinner to be con- 
verted from the error of his 
way, shall save his soul from 
death, and shall cover a multi- 
tude of sins. 

Q. Which are the effects of 
the Sacrament of Extreme 
Unction ? 

(lY. Kings 4. A.M. 3109.) 
There was a day when Eliseus 
passed by Sunam : now there 
was a great woman there, who 
detained him to eat bread ; and 
the woman brought forth a son. 
And her child grew. And on 
a certain day, when he went out 
to his father to the reapers, he 
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acheth, my head aclieth. But 
he said to his servant : Take 
him, and carry him to his 
mother. And when he had 
taken him, and brought him to 
his mother, she set him on her 
knees until noon, and then he 
died. And she went up and 
laid him upon the bed of the 
man of God, and shut the door : 
and going out, she went for- 
ward, and came to the man of 
God to mount Carmel : and 
when the man of God saw her 
coming towards, he said to 
Giezi his servant : Behold that 
Sunamitess. And when she 
came to the man of God to the 
mount, she caught hold on his 
feet ; and Giezi came to remove 
her. And the man of God said : 
Let her alone for her soul is in 
anguish, and the Lord hath hid 
it from me, and hath not told 
me. Then he said to Giezi : 
Gird up thy loins, and take my 
staff in thy hand, and go. If 
any man meet thee, salute him 
not : and if any man salute thee, 
answer him not : and lay my 
staff upon the face of the child. 
But the mother of the child 
said : As the Lord liveth, and 
as thy soul liveth, I will not 
leave thee. He arose, there- 
fore, and followed her. But 
Giezi was gone before them, and 
laid the staff upon the face of 
the child, and there was no 
voice nor sense : and he re- 
turned to meet him, and told 
him, saying : The child is not 
risen. Eliseus therefore went 
into the house, and behold the 
child lay dead on his bed. And 



going in he shut the door upon 
him, and upon the child, and 
prayed to the Lord. And he 
went up, and lay upon the 
child : and put his mouth upon 
his mouth, and his eyes upon 
his eyes, and his hands upon 
his hands : and he bowed him- 
self upon him, and the child's 
flesh grew warm. Then he re- 
turned and walked in the house, 
once to and fro : and he went 
up, and lay upon him : and the 
child gaped seven times, and 
opened his eyes. And he called 
Giezi, and said to him : Call 
this Sunamitess. And she be- 
ing called, went in to him : and 
he said : Take up thy son. She 
came and fell at his feet, and 
worshipped upon the ground : 
and took up her son, and went 
out. 

Q. "What do you mean by the 
remains of sin ? 

See"L. ofC.,"p. 55, No.7. 

Q. Ho^^ should -we receive 
the Sacrament of Extreme 
Unction ? 

See " L. of C," p. 41, Nos. 39, 40. 

Q. "Who is the minister of the 
Sacrament of Extreme Unc- 
tion? 

See " L. of C," p. 125, Nos. 21, 22. 

Q. ^What is the Sacrament of 
Holy Orders ? 

(Acts 6. A. D. 33.) In those 
days, the number of the dis- 
ciples increasing, there arose a 
murmuring of the Greeks 
against the Hebrews, for that 
their widows were neglected in 
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the twelve calling together the 
multitude of the disciples, said : 
It is not reason that we should 
leave the word of God, and 
serve tables. Wherefore, breth- 
ren, look ye out among you 
seven men of good reputation, 
full of the Holy Ghost and wis- 
dom, whom we may appoint 
over this business. But we 
will give ourselves continually 
to prayer, and to the ministry 
of the word. And the saying 
was liked by all the multitude. 
And they chose Stephen, a 
man full of faith, and of the 
Hoi}'' Ghost, and Philip, and 
Prochorus, and Nicanor, and 
Timon, and Parmenas, and 
Nicolas, a proselyte of An- 
tioch. These they set before 
the apostles ; and they pra^dng, 
imposed hands upon them. 

(I. Cor. 14.) Let women 
keep silence in the churches : 
for it is not permitted them to 
speak, but to be subject, as also 
the law saith. But if they 
would learn anything, let them 
ask their husbands at home. 
For it is a shame for a woman 
to speak in the church. 

(Ezek. 3. A. M. 3409.) At 
the end of seven days the word 
of the Lord came to me, say- 
ing : Son of man, I have made 
thee a watchman to the house 
of Israel : and thou shalt hear 
the word out of my mouth, and 
shalt tell it them from me. 
If, when I say to the wicked. 
Thou shalt surely die : thou de- 
clare it not to him, nor speak 
to him^ that he may be con- 
verted from his wicked way, 



and live : the same wicked man 
shall die in his iniquity, but I 
will require his blood at thy 
hand. But if thou give warn- 
ing to the wicked, and he be 
not converted from his wicked- 
ness : and from his evil way : he 
indeed shall die in his iniquity, 
but thou hast delivered thy 
soul. Moreover if the just man 
shall turn away from his justice, 
and shall commit iniquity ; I 
will lay a stumbling-block be- 
fore him, he shall die, because 
thou hast not given him warn- 
ing : he shall die in his sin, and 
his justices which he hath done, 
shall not be remembered : but I 
will require his blood at Jhy 
hand. But if thou warn the 
just man, that the just may not 
sin, and he doth not sin : living 
he shall live, because thou hast 
warned him, and thou hast de- 
livered thy soul. And the hand 
of the Lord was upon me, and 
he said to me : Rise and go 
forth into the plain, and there I 
will speak to thee. And I rose 
up, and went forth into the 
plain : and behold the glory of 
the Lord stood there, like the 
glory which I saw by the river 
Chobar: and I fell upon my 
face. And the spirit entered 
into me, and set me upon my 
feet : and he spoke to me, and 
said to me : Go in ; and shut 
thyself up in the midst of thy 
house. And thou, O son of 
man, behold they shall put 
bands upon thee, and the}^ shall 
bind thee with them : and thou 
shalt not go forth from the 
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Q. What is necessary to re- 
ceive Holy Orders -worthily ? 

See '* L. of C," p. 56, No. 8; p. 104, No. 5 

(Heb. 5.) Every high-priest 
taken from among men, is or- 
dained for men in the things 
that appertain to God, that he 
may offer up gifts and sacrifices 
for sins : who can have com- 
passion on them that are 
ignorant and that err : because 
he himself also is compassed 
with infirmity. And therefore 
he ought, as for the people, so 
also for himself, to ofi"er for 
sins. Neither doth any man 
take the honor to himself, but 
he that is called b}^ God, as 
Aaron was. 

(I. Kings 1. A. M. 2848.) 
There was a man of Ramathaim- 
sophim,of mount Ephraira, and 
his name was Elcana, the son 
of Jeroham, the son of Eliu, 
the son of Thohu, the son of 
Suph, an Ephraimite : and he 
had two wives, the name of one 
was Anna, and the name of the 
other Phenenna. Phenenna 
had children : but Anna had no 
children. Now the day came, 
and Elcana oflered sacrifice, and 
gave to Phenenna his wife, and 
to all her sons and daughters, 
portions: but to Anna he gave 
one portion with sorrow, be- 
cause he loved Anna. So Anna 
arose after she had eaten and 
drunk in Silo: And Heli the 
priest sitting upon a stool be- 
fore the door of the temple of 
the Lord : as Anna had her 
heart full of grief, she prayed 
to the Lord, shedding many 
tears, and she made a vow, say- 



ing : O Lord of hosts, if thou 
wilt look down on the affliction 
of thy servant, and wilt be 
mindful of me, and not forget 
thy hand-maid, and wilt give to 
thy servant a man-child : I will 
give him to the Lord all the 
days of his life, and no razor 
shall come upon his head. And 
it came to pass, as she multi- 
plied prayers before the Lord, 
that Heli observed her mouth. 
Now Anna spoke in her heart, 
and only her lips moved, but 
her voice was not heard at all. 
Then Heli said to her : Go in 
peace : and the God of Israel 
grant thee thy petition, which 
thou hast asked of him. And 
it came to pass when the time 
was come about, Anna bore a 
son, and called his name 
Samuel : because she had asked 
him of the Lord. And after 
she had weaned him, she carried 
him with her, with three calves, 
and three bushels of flour, and 
a bottle of wine, and she 
brought him to the house of 
the Lord in Silo. Now the 
child was as yet very young : 
and they immolated a calf, and 
offered the child to Heli. And 
Anna said : I beseech thee, my 
lord, as thy soul liveth, my 
lord : I am that woman who 
stood before thee here praying 
to the Lord. For this child 
did I pray, and the Lord hath 
granted me my petition, which 
I asked of him. Therefore I 
also have lent him to the Lord 
all the days of his life, he shall 
be lent to the Lord. And they 
adored the Lord there. Now 



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the child Samuel ministered to 
the Lord before Heli, and the 
word of the Lord was precious 
in those days, there was no 
manifest vision. And it came 
to pass one day when Heli lay 
in his place, and his eyes were 
grown dim, that he could not 
see : before the lamp of God 
went out, Samuel slept in the 
temple of the Lord, where the 
ark of God was. And the 
Lord called Samuel. And he 
answered : Here am I. And he 
ran to Heli and said : Here am 
I : for thou didst call me. He 
said : I did not call : go back 
and sleep. And he went and 
slept. And the Lord called 
Samuel again. And Samuel 
arose and went to Heli, and 
said : Here am I : for thou 
calledest me. He answered : I 
did not call thee, my son : re- 
turn and sleep. Now Samuel 
did not yet know the Lord, 
neither had the word of the 
Lord been revealed to him. 
And the Lord called Samuel 
again the third time. And he 
arose up and went to Heli, 
and said : Here am I : for thou 
didst call me. Then Heli un- 
derstood that the Lord called 
the child, and he said to Sam- 
uel : Go, and sleep : and if he 
shall call thee any more, thou 
shalt say : Speak, Lord, for thy 
servant heareth. So Samuel 
went and slept in his place. 
And the Lord came and stood : 
and he called, as he had called 
the other times, Samuel, Sam- 
uel. And Samuel said : Speak, 
Lord, for thy servant heareth. 



And the Lord said to Samuel : 
I will raise me up a faithful 
priest, who shall do according 
to my heart, and my soul, and 
I will build him a faithful 
house, and he shall walk all 
days before my anointed. And 
the child Samuel advanced, and 
grew on, and pleased both the 
Lord and men. 

(I. Kings 16. A. M. 2934.) 
And the Lord said to Samuel : 
How long wilt thou mourn for 
Saul, whom I have rejected 
from reigning over Israel ? fill 
thy horn with oil, and come, 
that I may send thee to Isai 
the Bethlehemite : for I have 
provided me a king among his 
sons. Then Samuel did as the 
Lord had said to him. And he 
came to Bethlehem, and the 
ancients of the city wondered, 
and meeting him, they said : Is 
thy coming hither peaceable ? 
And he said : It is peaceable : I 
am come to offer sacrifice to 
the Lord, be ye sanctified, and 
come with me to the sacrifice. 
And he sanctified Isai and his 
sons, and called them to the 
sacrifice. And when they were 
come in, he saw Eliab, and 
said; Is the Lord's anointed 
before him ? And the Lord said 
to Samuel : Look not on his 
countenance, nor on the height 
of his stature : because I have 
rejected him, nor do I judge ac- 
cording to the look of man : for 
man seeth those things that ap- 
pear, but the Lord beholdeth 
the heart. Isai therefore 
brought his seven sons before 
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Isai : The Lord hath not chosen 
any one of these. And Samuel 
said to Isai : Are here all th}^ 
sons ? He answered ; There 
reinaineth yet a young one, 
who keepeth the sheep. And 
Samuel said to Isai : Send, and 
fetch him, for we will not sit 
down till he come hither. He 
sent therefore and brought him. 
Now he was ruddy and beauti- 
ful to behold, and of a comely 
face. And the Lord said ; 
Arise, and anoint him, for this 
is he. Then Samuel took the 
horn of oil, and anointed him 
in the midst of his brethren : 
and the Spirit of the Lord came 
upon David from that day for- 
ward : and Samuel rose up, and 
went to Ramatha. 

(Num. 17. A. M. 2530.) The 
Lord spoke to Moses, sa} ing : 
Speak to the children of Israel, 
and take of every one of them 
a rod by their kindreds, of all 
the princes of the tribes, twelve 
rods, and write the name of 
every man upon his rod. And 
the name of Aaron shall be for 
the tribe of Levi, and one rod 
shall contain all their families : 
and thou shalt lay them up in 
the tabernacle of the covenant 
before the testimony, where I 
will speak to thee. Whomso- 
ever of these I shall choose, his 
rod shall blossom : and I will 
make to cease from me the mnr- 
murings of the children of 
Israel, wherewith they murmur 
against you. And Moses spoke 
to the children of Israel : and 
all the princes gave him rods 
one for every tribe : and there 



were twelve rods besides the 
rod of Aaron. And when 
Moses had laid them up before 
the Lord in the tabernacle of 
the testimony : he returned on 
the following day, and found 
that the rod of Aaron for the 
house of Levi, was budded : 
and that the buds swelling it 
had bloomed blossoms, which 
spreading the leaves, were 
formed into almonds. 

(Judg. 6. A. M. 2759.) An 
angel of the Lord came, and sat 
under an oak, that w^as in 
Ephra, and belonged to Joas 
the father of the family of Ezri. 
And when Gedeon his son was 
thrashing and cleansing wheat 
by the wine-press, to flee from 
Madian, the angel of the Lord 
appeared to him, and said : The 
Lord is with thee, O most val- 
iant of men. And Gedeon said 
to him : I beseech thee my lord, 
if the Lord be with us, why 
have these evils fallen upon us ? 
Where are his miracles, w^hich 
our fathers have told us of, say- 
ing : The Lord brought us out 
of Egypt? but now the Lord 
hath forsaken us, and delivered 
us into the hands of Madian. 
And the Lord looked upon 
him, and said : Go in this thy 
strength, and thou shalt deliver 
Israel out of the hand of Ma- 
dian : know that I have sent 
thee. He answered and said : 
I beseech thee, my lord, where- 
with shall I deliver Israel ? 
Behold my family is the mean- 
est in Manassas, and I am the 
least of my father's house. And 
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with thee : and thou shalt cut 
off Madian as one man. And 
he said : If I have found grace 
before thee, give me a sign that 
it is thou that speakest to me, 
and depart not hence, till I re- 
turn to thee, and bring a sacri- 
fice, and offer it to thee. And 
he answered : I will wait thy 
coming. So Gedeon went in, 
and boiled a kid, and made un- 
leavened loaves of a measure of 
flour : and putting the flesh in a 
basket, and the broth of the 
flesh into a pot, he carried all 
under the oak, and presented to 
him. And the angel of the 
Lord said to him : Take the 
flesh and the unleavened loaves, 
and lay them upon that rock, 
and pour out the broth there- 
on. And when he had done so, 
the angel of the Lord put forth 
the tip of the rod, which he held 
in his hand, and touched the 
flesh and the unleavened loaves : 
and there rose a fire from 
the rock, and consumed the 
flesh and the unleavened loaves : 
And the angel of the Lord van- 
ished out of his sight. 

(Judg. 7.) And Gedeon re- 
turned to the camp of Israel, 
and said : Arise, for the Lord 
hath delivered the camp of Ma- 
dian into our hands. And he 
divided the three hundred men 
into three parts, and gave them 
trumpets in their hands, and 
empt}^ pitchers, and lamps with- 
in the pitchers. And he said to 
them : What 3^ou shall see me 
do, do you the same : I will go 
into one part of the camp, and 
do you as I shall do. When 



the trumpet- shall sound in my 
hand, do 3^ou also blow the 
trumpets on every side of the 
camp. And Gedeon, and the 
three hundred men that were 
with him, went into part of the 
camp, at the beginning of the 
midnight watch, and the watch- 
men being alarmed, they began 
to sound their trumpets, and to 
clap the pitchers one against 
another. And when they 
sounded their trumpets in three 
places round about the camp, 
and had broken their pitchers, 
they held their lamps in their 
left hands, and with their right 
hands the trumpets which they 
blew, and they cried out : The 
sword of the Lord and of 
Gedeon : standing every man 
in his place round about the 
enemies' camp. So all the camp 
was troubled, and crying out 
and howling they fled away. 
And the three hundred men 
nevertheless persisted sounding 
the trumpets. And the Lord 
sent the sword into all the 
camp, and they killed one an- 
other. 

(Jer. 1. A. M. 3375.) The 
word of the Lord came to me, 
sa3'ing : Before I formed thee 
in the bowels of thy mother, I 
knew thee : and before thou 
camest forth out of the womb, 
I sanctified thee, and made thee 
a prophet unto the nations. 
And I said: Ah, ah, ah. Lord 
God : behold, I cannot speak, 
for I am a child. And the Lord 
said to me : Say not ; I am a 
child : for thou shalt go to all 
that I shall send thee : and 



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whatsoever I shall command 
thee, thou shalt speak. Be not 
afraid at their presence : for I 
am with thee to deliver thee, 
saith the Lord. And the Lord 
put forth his hand, and touched 
my mouth : and the Lord said 
to me; Behold I have given 
tny words in thy mouth : lo, I 
have set thee this day over the 
nations, and over kingdoms, to 
root up, and to pull down, and 
to waste, and to destroy, and 
to build, and to plant. 

(Jer. 16.) And the word of 
the Lord came to me, saying : 
Thou shalt not take thee a wife, 
neither shalt thou have sons, 
and daughters in this place. 
For thus saith the Lord con- 
cerning the sons and daughters, 
that are born in this place, and 
concerning their mothers that 
bore them : and concerning 
their fathers, of whom they 
were born in this land : they 
shall die by the death of griev- 
ous illnesses : they shall not be 
lamented, and they shall not be 
buried, they shall be as dung 
upon the face of the earth : and 
they shall be consumed with 
the sword, and with famine : 
and their carcasses shall be 
meat for the fowls of the air, 
and for the beasts of the earth. 

Q. How should Christians 
look upon the priests of the 
Church ? 

See "L. of C," p. 31, No. 8. 

(I. Cor. 4.) Let a man so 
account of us as of the minis- 
ters of Christ, and the dispens- 
ers of the mysteries of God. 



Here now it is required among 
the dispensers, that a man be 
found faithful. But to me it is 
a very small thing to be judged 
by you, or by man's day ; but 
neither do J judge my own self. 
For I am not conscious to my- 
self of any thing, yet am I not 
hereby justified; but he that 
judgeth me, is the Lord. There- 
fore judge not before the time; 
until the Lord come, who both 
will bring to liglit the hidden 
things of darkness, and will 
make manifest the counsels of 
the hearts ; and then shall every 
man have praise from God. 

(1. Tim. 5.) Let the priests 
that rule well, be esteemed 
worthy of double honour : es- 
pecially they who labour in the 
word and doctrine : For tbe 
scripture saith : Thou shalt not 
muzzle the ox that treadeth out 
the corn: and, The labourer is 
worthy of his reward. Against 
a priest receive not an accusa- 
tion, but under two or three 
witnesses. 

(Josh. 3:4. A. M. 2553.) 
Josue rose before daylight, 
and removed the camp*^: and 
they departed from Setim, and 
came to the Jordan, he, and all 
the children of Israel, and they 
abode there for three days. Af- 
ter which, the heralds went 
through the midst of the camp, 
and began to proclaim : When 
you shall see the ark of the 
covenant of the Lord your God, 
and the priests of the race of 
Levi carrying it, rise you up 
also, and follow them as they 
go before : And let there be be- 



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tween you and the ark the 
space of two thousand cubits : 
that you may see it afar off, 
and know which way you must 
go : for you have not gone this 
way before : and take care you 
come not near the ark. And 
when the priests, that carry 
the ark of the Lord the God of 
the whole earth, shall set the 
soles of their feet in the waters 
of the Jordan, the waters that 
are beneath shall run down and 
go off: and those that come 
from above, shall stand together 
upon a heap. And as soon as 
they came into the Jordan, and 
their feet were dipped in part 
of the water, (now the Jordan, 
it being harvest time, had filled 
the banks of its channel,) the 
waters that came down from 
above stood in one place, and 
swelling up like a mountain, 
were seen afar off from the city 
that is called Adom, to the 
place of Sarthan : but those 
that were beneath, ran down 
into the sea of the wilderness 
(which now is called the Dead 
sea) until they wholl}^ failed. 
And the people marched over- 
against Jericho : and the priests 
that carried the ark of the cov- 
enant of the Lord, stood girded 
upon the dry ground in the 
midst of the Jordan, and all the 
people -passed over through the 
channel that was dried up. Now 
the priests that carried the ark, 
stood in the midst of the Jordan 
till all things were accomplished 
which the Lord had commanded 
Josue to speak to the people, 
and Moses had said to him. 



And the people made haste and 
passed over. And when they 
that carried the ark of the cov- 
enant of the Lord, were come 
up, and began to tread on the 
dry ground, the waters returned 
into the channel, and ran as 
they were wont before. 

(I. Kings 2. A. M. 2860.) 
There came a man of God to 
Heli, and said to him : Thus 
saith the Lord : Did I not plain- 
ly appear to thy father^s house, 
when they were in Egypt in the 
house of Pharao? And I chose 
him out of all the tribes of Is- 
rael to be my priest, to go up 
to my altar, and burn incense 
to me, and to w^ear the ephod 
before me : and I gave to thy 
father's house of all the sacri- 
fices of the children of Israel. 
Why have you kicked away my 
victims, and my gifts which I 
commanded to be offered in the 
temple: and thou hast rather 
honoured thy sons than me, to 
eat the first-fruits of every 
sacrifice of my people Israel? 
Wherefore thus saith the Lord 
the God of Israel : I said in- 
deed that thy house, and the 
house of thy father should min- 
ister in my sight, for ever. But 
now saith the Lord: Far be 
this from me : but whosoever 
shall glorify me, him will I 
glorify: but they that despise 
me, shall be despised. Behold 
the days come : and I will cut 
off thy arm, and the arm of thy 
father's house, that there shall 
not be an old man in thy house. 
And thou shalt see thy rival in 
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of Israel, and there shall not be 
an old man in thy house for 
ever. 

(lY. Kings 12. A. M. 3147.) 
Joas said to the priests : All 
the money of the sanctified 
things, which is brought into 
the temple of the Lord by those 
that pass, which is offered for 
the price of a soul, and which 
of their own accord, and of 
their own free heart tliey bring 
into the temple of the Lord : 
let the priests take it according 
to their order, and repair the 
house, wheresoever they shall 
see any thing that wanteth re- 
pairing. 

(I. Kings 22. A. M. 2944.) 
The king sent to call for Achim- 
elech the priest the son of 
Achitob, and all his father's 
house, the priests that were 
in Nobe, and they came all 
of them to the king. And 
the king said : dying thou shalt 
die, Achimelech, thou and all 
thy father's house. And the 
king said to the messengers 
that stood about him: Turn, 
and kill the priests of the Lord, 
for their hand is with David, 
because they knew that he was 
fled, and they told it not to me. 
And the king's servants would 
not put forth their hands 
against the priests of the Lord. 

Q. "Who can confer the Sac- 
rament of Holy Orders ? 

(Ex. 29. A. M. 2514.) Thou 
shalt bring Aaron and his sons 
to the door of the tabernacle 
of the testimony. And when 
thou hast washed the father 

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and his sons with water, thou 
shalt clothe Aaron with his 
vestments, that is, with the 
linen garment and the tunick, 
and the ephod and the rational, 
which thou shalt gird with the 
girdle. And thou shalt put the 
mitre upon his head, and the 
holy plate upon the mitre, and 
thou shalt pour the oil of unc- 
tion upon his head : and by this 
rite shall he be consecrated. 
Thou shalt bring his sons also 
and shalt put on them the linen 
tunicks, and gird them with a 
girdle : to wit, Aaron and his 
children, and thou shalt put 
mitres upon them : and they 
shall be priests to me by a per- 
petual ordinance. After thou 
shalt have consecrated their 
hands, thou shalt take also the 
ram, upon whose head Aaron 
and his. sons shall lay their 
hands. And when thou hast 
sacrificed him, thou shalt take 
of his blood, and put upon the 
tip of the right ear of Aaron 
and of his sons, and upon the 
thumbs and great toes of their 
right hand and foot, and thou 
shalt pour the blood upon the 
altar round about. And when 
thou hast taken of the blood, 
that is upon the altar, and of 
the oil of unction, thou shalt 
sprinkle Aaron and his vesture, 
his sons and their vestments. 

(TIL Kings 19. A.M. 3000.) 
Elias departing from thence, 
found Eliseus the son of Sa- 
phat, ploughing with twelve 
yoke of oxen : and he was one of 
them that were ploughing with 
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Elias came up to him, he cast 
bis mantle upon him. And he 
forthwith left the oxen and ran 
after Elias, and said : Let me, 
I pray thee, kiss mj father and 
my mother, and then I will fol- 
low thee. And he said to him : 
Go, and return back : for that 
which was my part, I have done 



to thee. And returning back 
from him, he took a yoke of 
oxen, and killed them, and 
boiled the flesh with the i)lough 
of the oxen, and gave to the 
people, and they eat : and ris- 
ing up he went away, and fol- 
lowed Elias, and ministered to 
him. 



LESSON TWENTY-SIXTH. 



ON MATRIMONY. 



Q. What is the Sacrament 
of Matrimony ? 

(I. Cor. t.) I say to the 
unmarried, and to the widows : 
It is good for them if they so 
continue, even as I. But if 
they do not contain themselves, 
let them marry. For it is bet- 
ter to marry than to be burnt. 
But to them that are married, 
not I but the Lord command- 
eth, that the wife depart not 
from her husband. And if she 
depart, that she remain unmar- 
ried, or be reconciled to her 
husband. And let not the hus- 
band put away his wife. Now 
concerning virgins, I have no 
commandment of the Lord ; but 
I give counsel, as having ob- 
tained mercy of the Lord, to be 
faithful. I think therefore that 
this is good for the present ne- 
cessity, that it is good for a 
man so to be. Art thou bound 
to a wife ? seek not to be loosed. 
Art thou loosed from a wife ? 
seek not a wife. But if thou 
take a wife, thou hast not 



sinned. But if a virgin marry, 
she hath not sinned : neverthe- 
less, such shall have tribulation 
of the flesh. But I would have 
you to be without solicitude. 
He that is without a wife, is 
solicitous for the things that 
belong to the Lord, how he may 
please God. But he that is 
with a wife, is solicitous for the 
things of the world, how he 
may please his wife : and he it 
divided. And the unmarried 
woman and the virgin thinketh 
on the things of the Lord, that 
she may be holy both in body 
and in spirit. But she that is 
married thinketh on the things 
of the world, how she may 
please her husband. A woman 
is bound by the law as long as 
her husband liveth ; but if her 
husband die, she is at liberty : 
let her marry to whom she 
will ; only in the Lord. But 
more blessed shall she be, if 
she so remain, according to my 
counsel ; and I think that I 
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(Gen. 2. A.M.I.) The Lord 

God cast a deep sleep upon 
Adam : and when he was fast 
asleep, He took one of his ribs, 
and filled up flesh for it. — And 
the Lord God built the rib 
which He took from Adam into 
a woman : and brought her to 
Adam. — And Adam said : This 
now is bone of my bones, and 
flesh of my flesh ; she shall be 
called w^oman, because she was 
taken out of man. — Wherefore 
a man shall leave father and 
mother, and shall cleave to his 
wife : and they shall be two in 
one flesh. And God blessed 
them, saying : Increase and mul- 
tiply, and fill the earth, and 
subdue it, and rule over the 
fishes of the sea, and the fowls 
of the air, and all living crea- 
tures that move upon the earth. 

Q. Can a Christian man and 
•woman be united in la'wful 
marriage in any other "way 
than by the Sacrament of 
Matrimony ? 

(Eph. 5.) Let women be 
subject to their husbands, as to 
the Lord : because the husband 
is the head of the wife, as 
Christ is the head of the church. 
He is the saviour of his body. 
Therefore as the church is sub- 
ject to Christ, so also let the 
wives be to their husbands in 
all things. Husbands, love 
your wives, as Christ also loved 
the church, and delivered him- 
self up for it. That he might 
sanctify it, cleansing it by the 
laver of water in the word of 
life : that he might present it 
to himself a glorious church, 



not having spot or wrinkle, or 
any such thing ; but that it 
should be hol}^, and without 
blemish. So also ought men 
to love their wives as their own 
bodies. He that loveth his 
wife, loveth himself. For no 
man ever hated his own flesh ; 
but nourisheth and cherisheth 
it, as also Christ doth the 
church : because we are mem- 
bers of his body, of his flesh, 
and of his bones. For this 
cause shall a man leave his 
father and mother^ and shall 
cleave to his wife, and they shall 
be two in one Jlesh, This is a 
great sacrament; but I speak 
in Christ and in the church. 
Nevertheless let every one of 
you in particular love his wife 
as himself: and let the wife 
fear her husband. 

Q. Can the bond of Christian 
marriage be dissolved by 
any human po'wer ? 

See " L. of C," p. 74, No. 12 ; p. 80, No. 5. 

(Mai. 2. A. M. 3604.) This 
again have you done, you have 
covered the altar of the Lord 
with tears, with weeping, and 
bellowing, so that I have no 
more a regard to sacrifice, 
neither do I accept any atone- 
ment at your hands. And jo\x 
have said : For what cause ? 
Because the Lord hath been 
witness between thee, and the 
I wife of thy youth, whom thou 
hast despised : yet she was thy 
partner, and the wife of thy 
covenant. Did not one make 
her^ and she is the residue of 
his spirit ? And what doth one 



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seek, but the seed of God? Keep 
then your spirit, and despise not 
tlje wife of thy youth. When 
thou shalt hate her put her 
away, saith the Lord the God 
of Israel: but iniquit}^ shall 
cover his garment, saith the 
Lord of hosts, keep your spirit, 
and despise not. 

Q. Which are the effects of 
the Sacrament of Matri- 
mony? 

(I. Cor. Y.) To the rest I 
speak, not the Lord. If an}^ 
brother have a wife that be- 
lieveth not, and she consent to 
dwell with him, let him not put 
her away. And if any woman 
have a husband that belie veth 
not, and he consent to dwell 
w^ith her, let her not put away 
her husband. For the unbe- 
lieving husband is sanctified by 
the believing wife; and the un- 
believing wife is sanctified by 
the believing husband : other- 
wise your children should be 
unclean ; but now they are holy. 
But if the unbeliever depart, let 
him depart. For a brother or 
sister is not under servitude 
in such cases. But God hath 
called us in peace. For how 
knowest thou, O wife, whether 
thou shalt save thy husband ? 
Or how knowest thou, man, 
whether thou shalt save thy 
wife? But as the Lord hath 
distributed to every one, as 
God hath called every one, so 
let him walk : and so in all 
churches I teach. 

Q. To receive the Sacrament 
of Matrimony worthily is it 



necessary to be in the state 
of grace ? 

(I. Peter 3.) In like manner 
also let wives be subject to 
their husbands : that if any be- 
lieve not the word, they may be 
won without the word, by the 
conversation of the wives. Con- 
sidering your chaste conversa- 
tion with fear. Whose adorn- 
ing let it not be the outward 
plaiting of the hair, or the wear- 
ing of gold, or the putting on 
of apparel : but the hidden man 
of the heart in the incorrupti- 
bility of a quiet and a meek 
spirit, which is rich in the sight 
of God. For after this manner 
heretofore the holy women also, 
who trusted in God, adorned 
themselves, being in subjection 
to their own husbands. As 
Sara obeyed Abraham, calling 
him lord : whose daughters you 
are, doing well, and not fearing 
any disturbance. Ye husbands, 
likewise dwelling with them ac- 
cording to knowledge, giving 
honour to the female as to the 
weaker vessel, and as to the co- 
heirs of the grace of life : that 
your prayers be not hindered. 

Q. "Who has the right to make 
laws concerning the Sacra- 
ment of marriage ? 

See " L. of C," p. 90, No. 30. 

(Rom. 7.) Know^ you not, 
brethren, (for I speak to them 
that know the law,) that the 
law hath dominion over a man, 
as long as it liveth ? For the 
woman that hath an husband, 
whilst her husband liveth is 
bound to the law. But if her 



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husband be dead, she is loosed 
from the law of her husband. 
Therefore, whilst her husband 
liveth, she shall be called an 
adulteress, if she be with an- 
other man : but if her husband 
be dead, she is delivered from 
the law of her husband ; so that 
she is not an adulteress, if she 
be with another man. There- 
fore, my brethren, you also are 
become dead to the law, by the 
body of Christ; that 3^ou may 
belong to another, who is risen 
again from the dead, that we 
may bring forth fruit to God. 

Q. Does the Church forbid 
the marriage of Catholics 
•with persons "who have a 
different religion or no re- 
ligion at all ? 

(Gen. 24. A. M. 2148.) Now 
Abraham was old ; and advanced 
in age : and the Lord had blessed 
him in all things. And he said 
to the elder servant of his house, 
who was ruler over all he had : 
Swear by the Lord the God of 
heaven and earth, that thou take 
not a wife for my son, of the 
daughters of the Chanaanites, 
among whom I dwell : but that 
thou go to my own country and 
kindred, and take a wife from 
thence for my son Isaac. The 
servant answered : If the woman 
will not come with me into this 
land, must I bring thy son back 
again to the place, from whence 
thou camest out? And Abra- 
ham said: Beware thou never 
bring my son back again thither. 
The Lord God of heaven, who 
took me out of my father's 



house, and out of my native 
country, who spoke to me, and 
swore to me, saying : To thy 
seed will I give this land : he 
wiU send his Angel before thee, 
and thou shalt take from thence 
a wife for my son. But if the 
woman will not follow thee, thou 
shalt not be bound b}- the oath ; 
only bring not my son back 
thither again. The servant 
therefore swore to him upon 
this word. And he took ten 
camels of his master's herd, 
and departed, carrjang some- 
thing of all his goods with him, 
and he set forward and went on 
to Mesopotamia to the city of 
Nachor. And when he had 
made the camels lie down with- 
out the town near a well of 
water in the evening, at the 
time when women are wont to 
come out to draw water, he 
said : O Lord the God of my 
master Abraham, meet me to- 
day, I beseech thee, and shew 
kindness to my master Abra- 
ham. Behold I stand nigh the 
spring of water, and the daugh- 
ters of the inhabitants of this 
city will come out to draw wa- 
ter. Now, therefore, the maid 
to whom I shall say : Let down 
thy pitcher that I may drink : 
and she shall answer. Drink, 
and I will give thy camels drink 
also : let it be the same whom 
thou hast provided for thy serv- 
ant Isaac : and by this I shall 
understand, that thou hast 
shewn kindness to my master. 
He had not yet ended these 
words within himself, and be- 
hold Rebecca came out, the 



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daughter of Bathiiel, son of 
Melcba, wife to Naclior the 
brother of Abraham, having a 
pitcher on her shoulder : an ex- 
ceeding comely maid, and a 
most beautiful virgin : and she 
went down to the spring, and 
filled her pitcher and was com- 
ing back. And the servant ran 
to meet her, and said ; Give me 
a little water to drink of thy 
pitcher. And she answered : 
Drink, my lord. And quickly 
she let down the pitcher upon 
her arm, and gave him drink. 
And when he had drunk, she 
said : I wnll draw water for thy 
camels also, till they all drink. 
And pouring out the pitcher in- 
to the troughs, she ran back to 
the well to draw water : and 
having drawn she gave to all 
the camels. And after that the 
camels had drunk, the man took 
out golden ear-rings, weighing 
two sides : and as many brace- 
lets of ten sides weight. The 
man bowed himself down, and 
adored the Lord, sa3nng : Bless- 
ed be the Lord God of my mas- 
ter Abraham, who hath not 
taken away his mercy and truth 
from my master, and hath 
brought me the straight way 
into the house of my master's 
brother. Then the maid ran, 
and told in her mother's house, 
all that she had heard. And 
Rebecca had a brother named 
Laban, who went out in haste 
to the man, to the well. And 
when he had seen the ear-rings 
and bracelets in his sister's 
hands, and had heard all that 
she related, saying: Thug ^n4 



thus the man spoke to me : he 
came to the man who stood by 
the camels, and near to the 
spring of water, and said to 
him : Come in, thou blessed of 
the Lord : why standest thou 
without? I have prepared the 
house, and a place for the 
camels. And he brought him 
in into his lodging : and he un- 
harnessed the camels and gave 
straw and ha}^ and w^ater to 
wash his feet, and the feet of 
the men that were come with 
him. And bread was set be- 
fore him. But he said : I will 
not eat, till I tell my message. 
He answered him : Speak. And 
he said : I am the servant of 
Abraham : and my master made 
me swear, saying; Thou shalt 
not take a wife for my son of 
the Chanaanites, in whose land 
I dwell : but thou shalt go to 
my father's house, and shalt 
take a wife of my own kindred 
for my son : and the Lord God 
of my master Abraham hath 
brought me the straight way to 
take the daughter of my mas- 
ter's brother for his son. Where- 
fore if you do according to 
mercy and truth with my mas- 
ter, tell me: but if it please 
you otherwise, tell me that also, 
that I may go to the right 
hand, or to the left. And Laban 
and Bathuel answered: Behold 
Rebecca is before thee, take her 
and go thy way, and let her be 
the wife of thy master's son, as 
the Lord hath spoken. Which 
when Abraham's servant heard, 
falling down to the ground he 
^do^-e^ the Lord. And bring- 



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ing forth vessels of silver and 
gold, and garments, he gave 
them to Rebecca for a present. 
He offered gifts also to her 
brothers, and to her mother. 
And a banquet was made, and 
they ate and drank together, 
and lodged there. And in the 
morning, the servant arose, and 
said ; Let me depart, that I may 
go to my master. And they 
said : Let us call the maid, and 
ask her will. And they called 
her, and when she was come, 
they asked : Wilt thou go with 
this man ? She said : I will go. 
So they sent her away, and her 
nurse, and Abraham's servant, 
and his company. So Rel)ecca, 
and her maids being set upon 
camels, followed the man : w^ho 
with speed returned to his mas- 
ter. At the same time Isaac 
was walking along the way to 
the w^ell which is called Of the 
living and the seeing: for he 
dwelt in the south country. 
And he was gone forth to med- 
itate in the field, the day being 
now well spent : and w^hen he 
had lifted up his eyes, he saw 
camels coming afar off. Re- 
becca also, when she saw Isaac, 
lighted off the camel, and said 
to the servant ; Who is that 
man who cometh towards us 
along the field? And he said 
to her : That man is my mas- 
ter. But she quickly took her 
cloak, and covered herself. And 
the servant told Isaac all that 
he had done. Who brought her 
into the tent of Sara his mother, 
and took her to wife: and he 
loved her so much, that it mod- 



erated the sorrow w^hich was 
occasioned by his mother's 
death. 



Q. Why does the Church for- 
bid the marriage of Catho- 
lics -with persons who have 
a different religion or no re- 
ligion at all ? 

(Gen. 34. A.M. 2273.) When 
Hemor the father of Sichem was 
come out to speak to Jacob, he 
said: The soul of my son Sichem 
has a longing for j'our daugh- 
ter : give her him to wife : and 
let us contract marriages one 
with another: give us 3'our 
daughters and take you our 
daughters, and dwell with us : 
the land is at ^^our command, 
till, trade, and possess it. 
Sichem also said to her father 
and to her brethren : Let me 
find favor in 3^our sight : and 
whatsoever 3'ou shall appoint I 
will give. Raise the dowr}^ 
and ask gifts, and I will gladly 
give what 3'ou shall demand : 
only give me this damsel to 
wife. The sons of Jacob an- 
swered Sichem and his father : 
We cannot do what 3'ou demand, 
nor give our sister to one that 
is uncircumcised, which with 
us is unlawful and abominable. 
But in this we ma}^ be allied 
with .you, if you will be like us, 
and all the male sex among you 
be circumcised : then will we 
mutually give and take .your 
daughters, and ours: and we 
will dwell wdth you, and will be 
one people : but if you will not 
be circumcised, we will take 
our daughter and depart. 



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Q, "Why do many marriages 
prove unhappy ? 

(Tob. 6. A. M. 3299.) Then 
Tobias answered, and said : I 
hear that she hath been given 
to seven husbands, and they all 
died : moreover I have heard 
that a devil killed them. — Now 
I am afraid, lest the same thing 
should happen to me also : and 
whereas I am the only child of 
my parents, I should bring 
down their old age with sorrow 
to hell. — Then the Angel Ra- 
phael said to him : Hear me, 
and I will show thee who they 
are, over whom the devil can 
prevail, — For they who in such 
manner receive matrimony, as 
to shut out God from themselves, 
and from their mind, and to 
give themselves to their lust, 
over them the devil hath power. 
But thou when thou shall take 
her, go into the chamber, and 
for three days keep thyself con- 
tinent from her, and give thy- 
self to nothing else but to prayers 
with her. — And on that night 
lay the liver of the fish on the 
fire, and the devil shall be 
driven away. — But the second 
night thou shall be admitted into 
the society of the holy Patri- 
archs. — And the third night 
thou shall obtain a blessing that 
sound children may be born of 
you, 

Q. HoTV should Christians 
prepare for a holy and hap- 
py marriage ? 

(Gen. 29. A. M. 2245.) Jacob 
went on in his journey, and 
came into the east country. 



And he saw a well in the field, 
and three flocks of sheep lying 
by it : for the beasts were 
watered out of it, and the 
mouth thereof was closed with 
a great stone. And behold 
Rachel came with her father's 
sheep : for she fed the flock. 
And when Jacob saw her, and 
knew her to be his cousin-ger- 
man, and that they were the 
sheep of Laban, his uncle : he 
removed the stone wherewith 
the well was closed. And hav- 
ing watered the flock, he kissed 
her: and lifting up his voice, 
wept. And he told her that he 
was her father's brother, and 
the son of Rebecca : but she 
went in haste and told her 
father. Who, w^hen he heard 
that Jacob his sister's son was 
come, ran forth to meet him : 
and embracing him, and heart- 
ily kissing him brought him 
into his house. And when he 
had heard the causes of his 
journe3% he answered : Thou 
art my l3one and my flesh. And 
after the days of one month 
were expired, he said to him: 
Because thou art my brother, 
shalt thou serve me without 
wages? Tell me wiiat wages 
thou wilt have. Now he had 
two daughters, the name of the 
elder was Lia : and the younger 
was called Rachel. But Lia 
was blear-eyed : Rachel w^as 
well favored, and of a beautiful 
countenance. And Jacob be- 
ing in love with her, said : I 
will serve thee seven years for 
Rachel th}^ younger daugliter. 
Laban answered : It is better 



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that I give her to thee than to 
another man ; stay with me. 
So Jacob served seven years 
for Rachel: and they seemed 
hut a few days, because of the 
greatness of his love. 

(Judg. 21. A. M. 2890.) The 
Ancients commanded the chil- 
dren of Benjamin, and said : 
Go, and lie hid in the vine- 
yards, and when you shall see 
the daughters of Silo come out, 
as the custom is, to dance, come 
ye on a sudden out of the vine- 
3^ards,and catch you every man 
his wife among them, and go 
into the land of Benjamin. And 
when their fathers and their 



brethren shall come, and shall 
begin to complain against you, 
and to chide, we will say to 
them : Have pity on them : for 
tbey took tbem not away as by 
the right of war or conquest, 
but when they asked to have 
them, you gave them not, and 
the fault was committed on 
your part. And the children 
of Benjamin did, as they had 
been commanded : and accord- 
ing to their number, they car- 
ried off for themselves every 
man his wife of them that were 
dancing : and they went into 
their possession and built up 
their cities, and dwelt in them. 



LESSON TWENTY-SEVENTH. 



ON THE SACRAMENTALS. 



Q. What is a sacramental ? 

(Num. 21. A. M. 2553.) The 
people came to Moses, and said : 
We have sinned, because we 
have spoken against the Lord 
and thee: pray that he may 
take away these serpents from 
us. And Moses prayed for the 
people. And the Lord said to 
him : Make a brazen serpent, 
and set it up for a sign : who- 
soever being struck shall look 
on it, shall live. Moses there- 
fore made a brazen serpent, and 
set it up for a sign : which 
when they that were bitten 
looked upon, they were healed. 

Q. "What is the difference be- 
tween the Sacraments and 
the sacramentals ? 



(Wisd. 16.) It is impossible 
to escape thy hand. For the 
wicked that denied to know 
thee, were scourged by the 
strength of thy arm, being 
persecuted by strange waters, 
and hail, and rain, and con- 
sumed by fire. And which was 
wonderful, in water, which ex- 
tinguisheth all things, the fire 
had more force : for the world 
fighteth for the just. For at 
one time, the fire was mitigated, 
that the beasts which were sent 
against the wicked might not 
be burned, but that they might 
see and perceive that they were 
persecuted by the judgment of 
God. And at another time the 
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in the midst of water, to de- 
stroy the fruits of a wicked 
land. Instead of which things 
thou didst feed thy people with 
the food of Angels, and gavest 
them bread from heaven pre- 
pared without labour ;• having 
in it all that is delicious, and a 
sweetness of every taste. For 
thy sustenance shewed thy 
sweetness to thy children, and 
serving every man's will, it was 
turned to what every man 
liked. 

Q. "Which is the chief sacra- 
mental used in the Church ? 

(I. Cor. 1.) The word of the 
cross, to them indeed that per- 
ish, is foolishness; but to them 
that are saved, that is, to us, it 
is the power of god. For it is 
written : / will destroy the wis- 
dom of the wise, and the pru- 
dence of the prudent I will re- 
ject. Where is the wise ? Where 
is the scribe ? Where is the dis- 
puter of this world ? Hath not 
God made foolish the wisdom 
of this world ? For seeing that 
in the wisdom of God the 
world, by wisdom, knew not 
God, it pleased God, by the 
foolishness of our preaching, to 
save them that believe. For 
both the Jews require signs, 
and the Greeks seek after wis- 
dom : but we preach Christ 
crucified, unto the Jews indeed 
a stumbling-block, and unto the 
gentiles foolishness : but unto 
them that are called, both Jews 
and Greeks, Christ the power 
of God, and the wisdom of God. 
For the foolishness of God is 



wiser than men ; and the weak- 
ness of God is stronger than 
men. 

Q. How do we make the 
sign of the cross ? 

(Ezek. 9. A. M. 3410.) The 
Lord said to him : Go through 
the midst of the city, through 
the midst of Jerusalem : and 
mark Thau upon the foreheads 
of the men that sigh, and mourn 
for all the abominations that 
are committed in the midst 
thereof. And to the others he 
said in my hearing : Go ye 
after him through the city, and 
strike : let not your eyes spare, 
nor be 3^e moved with pity. 
Utterly destroy old and young, 
maidens, children and women : 
but upon whomsoever you shall 
see Thau, kill him not. 

Q. "Why do we make the 
sign of the cross ? 

(Gal. 6.) God forbid that I 
should glory, save in the cross 
of our Lord Jesus Christ : by 
whom the world is crucified to 
me, and I to the world. And 
whosoever shall follow this 
rule, peace on them, and mercy, 
and upon the Israel of God. 
From henceforth let no man be 
troublesome to me; for I bear 
the marks of the Lord Jesus in 
my body. 

Q. How is the sign of the 
cross a profession of faith 
in the chief mysteries of our 
religion ? 

(I. Cor. 1.) We preach Christ 
crucified, unto the Jews indeed 
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gentiles foolishness : but unto 
them that are called, both Jews 
and Greeks, Christ the power 
of God, and the wisdom of God. 
For the foolishness of God is 
wiser than men ; and the weak- 
ness of God is stronger than 
men. For see your voca- 
tion, brethren, that there are 
'not man}^ wise according to the 
flesh, not manj^ mighty, not 
many noble : but the foolish 
things of the world hath God 
chosen, that he may confound 
the wise ; and the weak things 
of the world hath God chosen, 
that be may confound the 
strong. And the base things 
of the world, and the things 
that are contemptible hath God 
chosen, and things that are not, 
that he might bring to nought 
things that are: that no flesh 
should glor}^ in his sight. 

Q. How^ does the sign of the 
cross express the mystery 
of the Unity and Trinity of 
Qod? 

(I. John 5.) There are three 
who give testimony in heaven, 
the Father, the w^ord, and the 
Holy Ghost. And these three 
are one. 

Q. How does the sign of the 
cross express the mystery 
of the Incarnation and death 
of our Lord ? 

(Ezek. 37. A. M. 3430.) The 
w^ord of the Lord came to me, 
saying: And thou son of man, 
take thee a stick : and write 
upon it: Of Juda, and of the 
cliildren of Israel his associates : 
and take another stick and write 



upon it : For Joseph the stick 
of Ephraim, and for all the 
house of Israel, and of his asso- 
ciates. And join them one to 
the other into one stick, and 
they shall become one in thy 
hand. And when the children 
of thy people shall speak to 
thee, saying : AVilt thou not 
tell us what thou meanest by 
this? Say to them: Thus 
saith the Lord God: Behold, I 
will take the stick of Joseph, 
which is in the hand of Epli- 
raim, and the tribes of Israel 
that are associated with him, 
and I will put them together 
with the stick of Juda, and will 
make them one stick : and they 
shall be one in his hand. And 
the sticks whereon thou hast 
written, shall be in thy hand, 
before their eyes. And thou 
shalt say to them : Thus saith 
the Lord God: Behold, I will 
take the children of Israel from 
the midst of the nations whither 
they are gone: and I will 
gather them on every side, and 
will bring them to their own 
land. And I wmII make them 
one nation in the land on the 
mountains of Israel, and one 
king shall be king over them 
all : and they shall no more be 
two nations, neither shall they 
be divided any more into two 
kingdoms. And I will make a 
covenant of peace wnth them, it 
shall be an everlasting covenant 
with them : and I will establish 
them, and will multiply them, 
and will set my sanctuar}'- in 
the midst of them for ever. 
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with them : and I will be their 
God, and they shall be my peo- 
ple. And the nations shall 
know that I am the Lord the 
sanctilier of Israel, when my 
sanctuary shall be in the midst 
of them for ever. 

Q. "What other sacramental 
is in very frequent use ? 

(Num. 19.) They shall pour 
living waters into a vessel. 
And a man that is clean shall 
dip hyssop in them, and shall 
sprinkle therewith all the tent, 
and all the furniture, and the 
men that are defiled with touch- 
ing any unclean thing : and in 
this manner he that is clean 
shall purify the unclean on the 
third and on the seventh day. 
And being expiated the seventh 
day, he shall wash both him- 
self and his garments, and be 
unclean nntil the evening. If 
any man be not expiated after 
this rite, his soul shall perish 
out of the midst of the church : 
because he hath profaned the 
sanctuary of the Lord, and was 
not sprinkled with the water of 
purification. 

Q. What is holy 'water ? 

(Num. 8. A. M. 2514.) The 
Lord spoke to Moses, saying : 
Take the Levites out of the 
midst of the children of Israel, 
and thou shalt purify them, 
according to this rite : Let 
them be sprinkled with the 
water of purification. 

(lY. Kings 2.) The men of 
the city said to Eliseus : Be- 



hold the situation of this city 
is very good, as thou, my lord, 
seest : but the waters are 
very bad, and the ground 
barren. And he said ; bring 
me a new vessel, and put salt 
into it. And when they had 
brought it, he went out to the 
spring of the waters, and cast 
the salt into it, and said : Thus 
saith the Lord : I have healed 
these waters, and there shall be 
no more in them death or bar- 
renness. And the waters were 
healed unto this day, according 
to the word of Eliseus, which 
he spoke. 

Q. Are there other sacra- 
mentals besides the sign of 
the cross and holy water ? 

(Lev. 6.) The fire on the 
altar shall alwa3^s burn, and 
the priest shall feed it, putting 
wood on it every day in the 
morning, and laying on the 
holocaust, shall burn thereupon 
the fat of the peace-offerings. 
This is the perpetual fire which 
shall never go out on the altar. 

(Gen. 2.) In the sweat of thy 
face shalt thou eat bread till 
thou return to the earth, out 
of which thou wast taken : for 
dust thou art, and into dust 
thou shalt return. 

(John 12. A. D. 33.) On the 
next day a great multitude, 
that was come to the festival 
day, when they had heard that 
Jesus was coming to Jerusa- 
lem, — Took branches of palm- 
trees, and went forth to meet 
Him, and cried : Hosanna, 
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the name of the Lord, the king 
of Israel. 

(III. Kings 6. A.M. 3000.) All 
the walls of the temple round 
about he carved with divers 
figures and carvings: and he 
made in them cherubim and 
palm-trees, and divers repre- 
sentations as it were standing 
out, and coming forth from the 
wall. 

(Apoc. 8.) Another angel 
came, and stood before the 
altar, having a golden censer : 
and there was given to him 
much incense, that he should 
offer of the prayers of all saints 
upon the golden altar, which is 
before the throne of God. — And 



the smoke of the incense of the 
praj'Crs of the saints ascended 
up before God, from the hand 
of the angel. 

(Apoc. 12.) A great sign 
appeared in heaven : A woman 
clothed with the sun, and the 
moon under her feet, and on 
her head a crown of twelve 
stars. 

(Isa. 61.) I will greatly re- 
joice in the Lord, and my soul 
shall be joyful in my God : for 
He hath clothed me with the 
garments of salvation; and 
with the robe of justice he hath 
covered me, as a bridegroom 
decked with a crown, and as a 
bride adorned with her jewels. 



LESSON TWENTY-EIGHTH. 



ON PRAYER, 



Q. Is there any other means 
of obtaining God's grace 
than the Sacraments ? 

(I. Kings 16. A. M. 2934.) The 
spirit of the Lord departed from 
Saul, and an evil spirit from 
the Lord troubled him. And 
Saul said to his servants : Pro- 
vide me some man that can 
play well, and bring him to me. 
And one of the servants an- 
swering, said: Behold I have 
seen a son of Isai the Bethlehem- 
ite, a skilful player, and one 
of great strength, and a man 
fit for war, and prudent in his 
words, and a comely person : 
and the Lord is with him. Then 
Saul sent messengers to Isai, 



saying: Send me David thy 
son, who is in the pastures. 
And Isai took an ass laden with 
bread, and a bottle of wine, and 
a kid of the flock, and sent them 
by the hand of David his son to 
Saul. And David came to 
Saul, and stood before him : and 
he loved him exceedingly, and 
made him his armour-bearer. 
And Saul sent to Isai, saying : 
Let David stand before me : for 
he hath found favour in my 
sight. So whensoever the evil 
spirit from the Lord was upon 
Saul, David took his harp, and 
plaj^ed with his hand, and Saul 
was refreshed, and was better, for 
the evil spirit departed from him. 



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Q. "What is prayer ? 

(Col. 3.) All whatsoever you 
do in word or in work, do all in 
the name of the Lord Jesus 
Christ, giving thanks to God 
and the Father by hiin. Wives, 
be subjeet to your husbands, as 
it behoveth in the Lord. Hus- 
bands, love your wives, and be 
not bitter towards them. Chil- 
dren, obey your parents in all 
things : for this is well pleasing 
to the Lord. Fathers, provoke 
not your children to indigna- 
tion, lest they be discouraged. 
Servants, obey in all things 
your masters according to the 
flesh, not serving to the e3'e, as 
pleasing men, but in simplicity 
of heart, fearing God. What- 
soever you do, do it from the 
heart, as to the Lord, and not 
to men : knowing that you 
shall receive of the Lord the 
reward of inheritance. 

(Num. 10. A. M. 2514.) The 
Lord spoke to Moses, saying : 
Make thee two trumpets of 
beaten silver, wherewith thou 
may est call together the multi- 
tude when the camp is to be \ 
removed. And when thou shalt j 
sound the trumpets, all the ; 
multitude shall gather unto 
thee to the door of the taber- 
nacle of the covenant. If thou 
sound but once, the princes and 
the heads of the multitude of 
Israel shall come to thee. But 
if the sound of the trumpets be 
longer, and with interruptions, 
they that are on the east side, 
shall first go forward. And at 
the second sounding and like 
noise of the trumpet, they who 



lie on the south side shall take 
up their tents. And after this 
manner shall the rest do, when 
the trumpets shall sound for a 
march. lUit when the people 
is to be gathered together, the 
sound of the trumpets shall be 
plain, and they shall not make 
a broken sound. And the sons 
of Aaron the priest shall sound 
the trumpets : and this shall be 
an ordinance for ever in your 
generations. If you go forth 
to war out of your land against 
the enemies that fight against 
you, you shall sound aloud with 
the trumpets, and there shall 
be a remembrance of 3'ou before 
the Lord your God, that you 
may be delivered out of the 
hands of your enemies. If at 
any time you shall have a ban- 
quet, and on your festival days, 
and on the first days of your 
months, you shall sound the 
trumpets over the holocausts, 
and the sacrifices of peace- ofierr 
ings, that th^y may be to you 
for a remembrance of jour God. 
1 am the Lord 3'our God. 

(III. Kings 3. A. M. 2991.) 
The Loid api)eared to Solomon 
in a dream by night, sajing : 
Ask what thou wilt that I should 
give thee. And Solomon said : 
Thou hast sliewn great mercy 
to 1 113' servant David mj^ father, 
even as he walked before thee 
in truth, and justice, and an 
upright heart with thee: and 
tiiou hast kept thy great mercy 
for him, and hast given him a 
son to sit on his throne, as it is 
tiiis da3\ And now, O Lord 
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ant king instead of David my 
father : and I am but a child, 
and know not how to go out and 
come in. And thy servant is 
in the midst of the people which 
thou hast chosen, an immense 
people, which cannot be num- 
bered nor counted for multitude. 
Give therefore to thy servant 
an understanding heart, to 
judge thj^ people, and discern 
between good and evil. For 
who shall be able to judge this 
people, thy people which is so 
numerous ? And the word was 
pleasing to the Lord that Solo- 
mon had asked such a thing. 
And the Lord said to Solomon : 
Because thou hast asked this 
thing, and hast not asked for 
thyself long life or riches, nor 
the lives of thy enemies, but 
hast asked for thyself wisdom 
to discern judgment, behold I 
have done for thee according to 
thy words, and have given thee 
a wise and understanding heart, 
insomuch that there hath been 
no one like thee before thee, nor 
shall arise after thee. Yea and 
the things also which thou 
didst not ask, I have given 
thee : to wit, riches and glory, 
so that no one hath been like 
thee among the kings in all 
days heretofore. And if thou 
wilt walk in m}^ ways, and keep 
my precepts, and my command- 
ments, as thy father walked, I 
will lengthen thy da^^s. And 
Solomon awaked, and perceived 
that it was a dream : and when 
he was come to Jerusalem, he 
stood before the ark of the cov- 
enant of the Lord, and offered 



holocausts, and sacrificed vic- 
tims. 

(Dan. 6. A. M. 3466.) It 
seemed good to Darius, and he 
appointed over the kingdom a 
hundred and twenty governors 
to be over his whole kingdom, 
I and three princes over them, 
of whom Daniel was one. And 
Daniel excelled all the princes 
and governors : because a 
greater spirit of God was in 
him. And the king thought to 
set him over all the kingdom : 
whereupon the princes, and the 
governors sought to find occa- 
sion against Daniel with regard 
to the king. Then the princes, 
and the governors craftily sug- 
gested to the king, that an edict 
be published : That whosoever 
shall ask an}^ petition of any 
god, or man, for thirty days, 
but of thee, O king, shall be 
cast into the den of lions. Now 
when Daniel knew this, that is 
to say, that the law was made, 
he w^ent into his house : and 
opening the windows in his up- 
per chamber towards Jerusalem , 
he knelt down three times a 
da}^, and adored, and gave 
thanks before his God, as he 
had been accustomed to do be- 
fore. Wherefore those men 
carefully w^atching him, found 
Daniel praying and making 
supplication to his God. And 
they came and spoke to the 
king concerning the edict. Now 
when the king had heard these 
words, he was very much 
grieved, and in behalf of Daniel 
he set his heart to deliver him 
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to save him. But those men 
perceiving the king's design, 
said to him : Know thou, 
king, that the law of the Medes 
and Persians is, that no decree 
which the king hath made, may 
be altered. Then the king com- 
manded, and they brought Dan- 
iel, and cast him into the den 
of the lions. And the king said 
to Daniel: Thy God, whom 
thou always servest, he will de- 
liver thee. And the king went 
away to his house and laid him- 
self down without taking sup- 
per, and meat was not set be- 
fore him, and even sleep de- 
parted from him. Then the 
king rising very early in the 
morning, went in haste to the 
lions' den : and coming near to 
the den, cried with a lamentable 
voice to Daniel, and said to him : 
Daniel, servant of the living 
God, hath thy God, whom thou 
servest always, been able, thin k- 
est thou, to deliver thee from 
the lions ? A nd Daniel answer- 
ing the king, said: O king, 
live forever: mv God hath 
sent his Angel, and hath shut 
up the mouths of the lions, and 
tliey have not hurt me : foras- 
much as before him justice hath 
been found in me : yea and be- 
fore thee, O king, I have done 
no offence. Then was the king 
exceeding glad for him, and he 
commanded that Daniel should 
be taken out of the den : and 
Daniel was taken out of the den, 
and no hurt was found in him, 
because he believed in his God. 
And by the king's command- 
ment, those men were brought 



that had accused Daniel : and 
the}^ were cast into the lions' 
den , they and their children , and 
their wives : and they did not 
reach the bottom of the den, 
before the lions caught them, 
and broke all their bones in 
pieces. Then King Darius 
wrote to all people : It is decreed 
by me, that in all my empire 
and my kingdom all men dread 
and fear the God of Daniel. 
For he is the living and eternal 
God for ever : and his kingdom 
shall not be destroyed, and his 
power shall be forever. He is 
the deliverer and saviour, doing 
signs, and wonders in heaven, 
and in earth : who hath deliv- 
ered Daniel out of the lions' 
den. 

Q. Is prayer necessary to 
salvation ? 

See "L. of C," p- 106, No. 9. 

Q. At what particular times 
should we pray ? 

See " L. of C," p. 40, No. 37 ; p. 44, No. 49. 

(Num. 28. A. M. 2553.) The 
Lord said to Moses : Command 
the children of Israel, and thou 
shalt say to them ; Offer ye my 
oblation and my bread, and 
burnt-sacrifice of most sweet 
odour, in their due seasons. 
These are the sacrifices which 
you shall ofl[*er: Two lambs of 
a year old without blemish 
every day for the perpetual 
holocaust: one you shall offer 
in the morning, and the other 
in the evening : and on the sab- 
bath day you shall offer two 
lambs of a year old without 
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tempered with oil in sacrifice, 
and the libations. And on the 
first day of the month }■ ou shall 
offer a holocaust to the Lord, 
two calves of the herd, one ram, 
and seven lambs of a year old, 
without blemish, so shall you 
do every day of the seven days 
for the food of the fire, and for 
a most sweet odour to the Lord, 
which shall rise from the holo- 
caust, and from the libations of 
each. The seventh day also 
shall be most solemn and holy 
unto you : you shall do no 
servile work therein. 

Q. How should we pray ? 

See " L. of C," p. 33, No. 15 ; p. 63, No. 22 ; 
p. 80, Nos. 3, 4. 

(Gen. 18. A. M.2107). The 
Lord said : The cry of Sodom 
and Gomorrha is multiplied, 
and their sin is become exceed- 
ingly grievous. I will go down 
and see whether they have done 
according to the cry that is 
come to me : or whether it be 
not so, that I may know. And 
they turned themselves from 
thence, and went their way to 
Sodom : but Abraham as yet 
stood before the Lord. And 
drawing nigh he said: Wilt 
thou destroy the just with the 
wicked ? If there be fifty just 
meu in the cit}^, shall the^^ 
perish withal ? and wilt thou 
not spare that place for the 
sake of the fifty just, if they 
be therein? Far be it from 
thee to do this thing, and to 
slay the just with the wicked, 
and for the just to be in like 
case as the wicked, this is not 

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beseeming tl:ee : thou who 
judgest all the earth, wilt not 
make this judgment. And the 
Lord said to him : If I find in 
Sodom fifty just within the 
city, I will spare the whole 
place for their sake. And Abra- 
ham answered, and said : 
Seeing I have once begun, I 
will speak to m}" Lord, whereas 
I am dust and ashes. What if 
there be five less than fifty just 
persons ? wilt thou for five and 
forty destroy the whole city 1 
And he said : I will not de- 
stroy it, if I find five and forty. 
And again he said to him : But 
if forty be found there, what 
wilt thou do ? He said : I will 
not destroy it for the sake of 
forty. Lord, saith he, be not 
angry, I beseech thee, if I 
speak : What if thirty shall 
be found there ? He answered : 
I will not do it, if I find thirty 
there. Seeing, saith he, I have 
once begun, I will speak to my 
Lord. What if twenty be 
found there? He said; I will 
not destroy it for the sake of 
twenty. I beseech thee, saith 
he, be not angry, Lord, if I 
speak yet once more : What if 
ten should be found there ? 
And he said : I will not destroy 
it for the sake of ten. And 
the Lord departed, after he had 
left speaking to Abraham : and 
Abraham returned to his place. 
(Ex. 17. A. M. 2514.) Josue 
did as Moses had spoken, and 
he fought against Amalec; 
but Moses, and Aaron, and Hur 
went up upon the top of the 
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up his hands, Israel overcame : 
but if he let them down a 
little, Amalec overcame.' And 
Moses's hands were heavy : so 
they took a stone, and put un- 
der him, and he sat on it : and 
Aaron and Hur stayed up his 
hands on both sides. And it 
came to pass that his hands 
were not weary until sunset. 
And Josue put Amalec and his 
people to flight, by the edge of 
the sword. 

(Judg. 20. A. M. 2887.) The 
children of Israel rising in the 
morning, camped by Gabaa ; 
and going out from thence to 
fight against Benjamin, began 
to assault the city. And the 
children of Benjamin coming 
out of Gabaa, slew of the chil- 
dren of Israel that day two and 
tw^enty thousand men. Again 
Israel trusting in their strength 
and their number, set their 
army in array in the same 
place, where they had fought 
before : yet so that they first 
went up and wept before the 
Lord until night : and consulted 
him and said : Shall I go out 
any more to fight against the 
children of Benjamin my 
brethren, or no? And he an- 
swered them : Go up against 
them, and join battle. And 
when the children of Israel 
went out the next day to fight 
against the children of Benja- 
min, the children of Benjamin 
sallied forth out of the gates of 
Gabaa : and meeting them made 
so great a slaughter of them, as 
to kill eighteen thousand men 
that drew the sword. Where- 



fore all the children of Israel 
came to the house of God, and 
sat and wept before the Lord : 
and they fasted that day till 
the evening, and offered to him 
holocausts, and victims of peace- 
ofiTerings, and inquired of him 
concerning their state. At that 
time the ark of the covenant of 
the Lord was there, and Phinees 
the son of Eleazar the son of 
Aaron was over the house. So 
they consulted the Lord and 
said : Shall we go out any 
more to fight against the chil- 
dren of Benjamin our brethren, 
or shall w^e cease ? And the 
Lord said to them : Go up, for 
to-morrow I will deliver tliera 
into your hands. And the 
Lord defeated them before the 
children of Israel, and they 
slew of them in that day five 
and twent}^ thousand, and one 
hundred, all fighting men and 
that drew the sword. 

(III. Kings 18.) Achab 
went up to eat and drink : and 
Elias went up to the top of 
Carmel, and casting himself 
down upon the earth put his 
face beeween his knees, and he 
said to his servant : Go up, and 
look toward the sea. And he 
went up, and looked, and said : 
There is nothing. And again 
he said to him : Return seven 
times. And at the seventh 
time : Behold a little cloud 
arose out of the sea like a man's 
foot. And he said : Go up 
and say to Achab : Prepare 
thy chariot and go down, lest 
the rain prevent thee. And 
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way and tbat way, behold the 
heavens grew dark, with 
clouds, and wind, and there fell 
a great rain. 

Q. "Which are the prayers 
most recommended to us ? 

See '' L. of C," p. 75, No. 15. 

Q. Are prayers said -with 
distractions of any avail ? 

See " L. of C," p. 47, No. 2 ; p. 88. No. 23. 

(Num. 15. A.M. 2530.) The 
Lord also said to Moses : Speak 
to the children of Israel, and 
thou shalt tell them to make to 



themselves fringes in the cor- 
ners of their garments, putting 
in them ribands of blue : that 
when they shall see them, they 
may remember all the com- 
mandments of the Lord, and 
not follow their own thoughts 
and eyes going astray after 
divers things, but rather being 
mindful of the precepts of the 
Lord, may do them and be holy 
to their God. I am the Lord 
your God, who brought you out 
of the land of Egypt, that I 
might be your God. 



LESSON TWENTY-NINTH. 



ON THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. 



Q. Is it enough to belong- to 
God's Church in order to be 
saved ? 

See "L. of C," p. 34, No. 22; p. 65, No. 27; 
p. 70, No. 2. 

(Rom. 2.) Circumcision 
profiteth indeed, if thou keep 
the law ; but if thou be a trans- 
gressor of the law, thy circum- 
cision is made uncircumcision. 
If, then, the nncircumcised 
keep the justices of the law, 
shall not this uncircumcision 
be counted for circumcision ? 
And shall not that which by 
nature is uncircumcision, if it 
fulfil the law, judge thee, w^ho 
by the letter and circumcision 
art a transsfressor of the law ? 
For it is not he is a Jew, that 
is so outwardly ; nor is that 
circumcision, which is outward 
in the flesh. But he is a Jew, 



that is. one inwardly ; and the 
circumcision is that of the 
heart, in the spirit, not in the 
letter ; whose praise is not of 
men, but of God. 

Q. 'WTiich are the Command- 
ments that contain the 
Tvhole la-w of God ? 

See"L. of C, "p. 32, No. 13. 

(I. John 4.) Let us love God, 
because God first hath loved us. 
If 2iX\y man sa}^, I love God, 
and hateth his brother ; he is a 
liar. For he that loveth not 
his brother, whom he seeth, 
how can he love God, whom he 
seeth not? And this com- 
mandment we have from God, 
that he, who loveth God, love 
also his brother. 

(Dent. 22.) Thou shalt not 
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brother's ox, or his sheep go 
astray : but thou shalt bring 
them back to thy brother. And 
if thy brother be not nigh, or 
thou know him not : thou shalt 
bring them to thy house, and 
they shall be with thee until 
thy brother seek them, and re- 
ceive them. Thou shalt do in 
like manner with his ass, and 
with his raiment, and with 
every thing that is thy 
brother's, which is lost : if 
thou find it, neglect it not as 
pertaining to another. If thou 
see thy brother's ass or his ox 
to be fallen down in the way, 
thou shalt not slight it, but 
shalt lift it up with him. A 
woman shall not be clothed with 
man's apparel, neither shall a 
man use woman's apparel : for 
he that doeth these things is 
abominable before God. If 
thou find as thou walkest by 
the way, a bird's nest in a tree, 
or on the ground, and the dam 
sitting upon the 3'oung or upon 
the eggs : thou shalt not take 
her with her 3"oung : but shalt 
let her go, keeping the young 
which thou hast caught : that it 
may be well with thee, and 
thou mayest live a long time. 

Q. "WTiy do these two Com- 
mandments of the love of 
Grod and of our neighbor 
contain the whole law of 
G-od? 

See '• L. of C," p. 91, No. 32 ; p. 102, No. 7. 

Q. Which are the Command- 
ments of God ? 

(Dan. 14. A. M. 3398.) Dan- 
iel was the king's guest, and 



w^as honoured above all his 
friends. Now the Babylonians 
had an idol called Bel : and 
there were spent upon him 
every da^^ twelve great meas- 
ures of fine flour, and forty 
sheep, and sixty vessels of 
wine. The king also wor- 
shipped him, and went every 
day to adore him: but Daniel 
adored his God. And the king 
said to him : Why dost thou 
not adore Bel ? And he an- 
swered, and said to him : Be- 
cause I do not worship idols 
made with hands, but the liv- 
ing God, that created heaven 
and earth, and hath power over 
all flesh. And the king said to 
him : Doth not Bel seem to thee 
to be a living god ? Seest thou 
not how much he eateth and 
drinketh every day ? Then 
Daniel smiled and said : O 
king, be not deceived : for this 
is but clay within, and brass 
without, neither hath he eaten 
at any time. And the king 
being angry called for his 
priests, and said to them : If 
you tell me not, who it is that 
eateth up these expenses, j^ou 
shall die. But if you can shew 
that Bel eateth these things, 
Daniel shall die, because he 
hath blasphemed against Bel. 
And Daniel said to the king: 
Be it done according to thy 
word. So it came to pass 
after they were gone out, the 
king set the meats before Bel : 
and Daniel commanded his 
servants, and they brought 
ashes, and he sifted them all 
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king ; and going forth they 
shut tbe door, and having 
sealed it with tlje king's ring, 
they departed. But the priests 
went in by night, according to 
their custom, with their wives 
and their children : and they 
eat and drank up all. And the 
king arose early in the morn- 
ing, and Daniel with him. And 
the king said : are the seals 
whole, Daniel? And he an- 
swered : They are whole, 
king. And as soon as he had 
opened the door, the king 
looked upon the table, and 
cried out with a loud voice : 
Great art thou O Bel, and there 
is not au}^ deceit with thee. 
And Daniel laughed : and he 
held the king that he should 
not go in : and he said : Be- 
hold the pavement, mark whose 
foot-steps these are. And the 
king said : I see the foot-steps 
of men, and women, and chil- 
dren. And the king was angry. 
Then he took the priests, and 
their wives, and their children : 
and they shewed him the private 
doors by which they came in, 
and consumed the things that 
were on the table. The king 
therefore put them to death, 
and delivered Bel into the 
power of Daniel : who de- 
stroyed him, and his temple. 

(Eecltus. 23.) , Let not thy 
mouth be accustomed to swear- 
ing : for in it there are many 
falls. And let not the naming 
of God be usual in thy mouth, 
and meddle not with the names 
of saints, for thou shalt not es- 
cape free from them. For as a 



slave daily put to the question, 
is never without a blue mark : 
so every one that sweareth, and 
nameth, shall not be wholly 
pure from sin. A man that 
sw^eareth much, shall be filled 
with iniquity, and a scourge 
shall not depart from his house. 
And if he make it void, his 
sin shall be upon him : and if 
he dissemble it, he offendeth 
double : and if he swear in 
vain, he shall not be justified : 
for his house shall be filled with 
his punishment. 

(Isa. 56.) Blessed is the 
man that doth this, and the son 
of man that shall lay hold on 
this : that keepeth the sabbath 
from profaning it,for thus saith 
the Lord : They that shall keep 
my sabbaths, and shall choose 
the things that please me, and 
shall hold fast my covenant : 
I will give to them in my house, 
and w ithin my walls, a place, 
and a name better than sons 
and daughters : I will give 
them an everlasting name which 
shall never perish. And the 
children of the stranger that 
adliere to the Lord, to worship 
him, and to love his name, to be 
his servants : every one that 
keepeth the sabbath from pro- 
faning it, and that holdeth fast 
my covenant : I will bring them 
into my holy mount, and will 
make them joyful in my house 
of prayer : their holocausts, and 
their victims shall please me 
upon my altar : for my house 
shall be called the house of 
prayer, for all nations. 

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the judgment of j'our father, 
and so do that you may be 
saved. For God hath made the 
father honourable to the chil- 
dren : and seeking the judg- 
ment of the mothers, hath con- 
firmed it upon the children. 
And he that honoureth his 
mother is as one that layeth up 
a treasure. He that honoureth 
his father shall have joy in his 
own children, and in the day of 
his prajer he shall be heard. 
He that honoureth his father 
shall eujoy a long life : and he 
that obeyeth the father, shall 
be a comfort to his mother. 
He that feareth the Lord, hon- 
oreuth his parents, and will 
serve them as his masters that 
brought him into the world. 
Honour thy father, in work and 
word, and all patience, that a 
blessing may come upon thee 
from him, and his blessing ma}^ 
remain in the latter end. The 
father's blessing establisheth 
the houses of the children : but 
the mother's curse rooteth up 
the foundation. Glory not in 
the dishonour of thy father : 
for bis shame is no glory to 
thee. For the glory of a man 
is from the honour of his father, 
and a father without honour is 
the disgrace of the son. Son, 
support tlie old age of thy 
father, and grieve him not in 
his life; and if his understand- 
ing fail, have patience with him, 
and despise him not when thou 
art in thy strength : for the re- 
lieving of the father shall not 
be forgotten. 

(Gen. 9.) I will require the 



blood of your lives at the hand 
of every beast, and at the hand 
of man, at the hand of every 
man, and of his brother, will I 
require the life of man. Who- 
soever shall shed man's blood, 
his blood shall be shed : for 
man was made to the image of 
God. 

(Gen. 12. A. M. 2084.) There 
came a famine in the country ; 
and Abram went down into 
EgyP^) ^^ sojourn there : for 
the famine was very grievous 
in the land. And when he was 
near to enter into Egypt, he 
said to Sarai his wife : I know 
that tliou art a beautiful wom- 
an : and that when the Egyp- 
tians shall see thee, they will 
say : She is his wife ; and they 
will kill me, and keep thee. 
Say, therefore, I pray thee, that 
thou art my sister : that I may 
be well used for thee, and that 
m}^ soul may live for thy sake. 
And when Abram was come 
into Eg3'pt, the Egyptians saw 
the woman that she was very 
beautifuh And the princes told 
Pharao, and praised her before 
him : and the woman was taken 
into the house of Pharao. And 
tliey used Abram well for her 
sake : And he had sheep and 
oxen, and he-asses and men- 
servants and maid-servants, and 
she-asses, and camels. But the 
Lord scourged Pharao and his 
house with most grievous 
stripes for Sarai, Ab ram's wife. 
And Pharao called Abram, and 
said to him : What is this that 
thou hast done to me ? Why 
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was thy wife ? For what cause \ 
didst tliou say, she was tiiy sis- 1 
ter, that I might take her to \ 
my wife? Now, therefore, there 
is thy wife, take her and go thy 
wa3^ 

(Josh. 7. A.M. 2553.) Achan 
answered Josue, and said to 
liim : indeed I have sinned 
against the Lord the God of 
Israel, and thus and thus have 
I done. For I saw among the 
spoils a scarlet garment exceed- 
ing good, and two hundred 
sides of silver, and a golden 
rule of fifty sides : and I cov- 
eted them, and I took them 
away, and hid them in the 
ground in the midst of my tent, 
and the silver I covered with 
the earth that I dug up. Josue 
therefore sent ministers : who 
running to his tent, found all 
hidden in the same place, to- 
gether with the silver. And 
taking them away out of the 
tent, they brought them to 
Josue, and to all the children 
of Israel, and threw them down 
before the Lord. Then Josue 
and all Israel with him took 
Achan the son of Zare, and the 
silver and the garments, and 
the golden rule, his sons also 
and his daughters, his oxen and 
asses and sheep, the tent also, 
and all the goods : and brought 
them to the valley of Achor : 
where Josue said : Because 
thou hast troubled us, the Lord 
trouble thee this day. And all 
Israel stoned him: and all 
things that were his, were con- 
sumed with fire. And the}' 
gathered together upon him a 



great heap of stones, which re- 
maineth until tliis present day. 
And the wrath of the Lord was 
turned aAvay from them. 

(III. Kings 21. A.M. 3105.) 
Naboth the Jezrahelite, who 
was in Jezrahel had at that 
time a vineyard near the palace 
of Achab king of Samaria. And 
Achab spoke to Naboth, say- 
ing : Give me thy vineyard, 
that I may make me a garden 
of herbs, because it is nigh, and 
joining to my house, and I will 
give thee for it a better vine- 
yard : or if thou think it more 
convenient for thee, I will give 
thee the worth of it in money. 
Naboth answered him: The Lord 
be merciful to me, and not let 
me give thee the inheritance of 
mv fathers. And Achab came 
into His house angry and fret- 
ting, because of the word that 
Naboth had said. Then Jeza- 
bel his wife said to him: be of 
good cheer, I will give thee the 
vinej'ard of Naboth the Jezra- 
helite. So she wrote letters in 
Achab's name, and sealed them 
with his ring, and sent them to 
the ancients, and the chief men 
that were in his city, and that 
dwelt with Naboth. And this 
was the tenor of the letters: 
Proclaim a fast, and make Na- 
both sit among the chief of the 
people, and suborn two men, 
sons of Belial against him, and 
let them bear false witness : 
that he hath blasphemed God 
and the king : and then carry 
him out, and stone him, and so 
let him die. And they sent to 
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stoned, and is dead. And the 
word of the Lord came to Elias 
the Thesbite, saying: Arise, 
and go down to meet Aehab 
king of Israel, who is in Sama- 
ria : behold he is going down 
to the vineyard of Naboth, to 
take possession of it : and thou 
shalt speak to him, saying: 
Thus saith the Lord: Thou hast 
slain, moreover also thou hast 
taken possession. And after 
these words thou shalt add : 
Thus saith the Lord : In this 
place, wherein the dogs have 
licked the blood of Naboth, they 
shall lick thy blood also. And 
of Jezabel also the Lord spoke, 
saying : The dogs shall eat 
Jezabel in the field of Jezrahel. 

(II. Kings 11. A. M. 2969.) 
It happened that David arose 
from his bed after noon, and 
walked upon the roof of the 
king's house : and he saw from 
the roof of his house a woman 
washing herself, over-against 
him : and the woman was very 
beautiful. And the king sent, 
and inquired who the woman 
was. And it was told him, that 
she was Bethsabee the daugh- 
ter of Eliam, the wife of Urias 
the Hethite. And David sent 
messengers, and took her, and 
this thing which David had 
done, was displeasing to the 
Lord. 

(Eph. 5.) But covetous- 
ness, let it not so much as be 
named among you, as becometh 
saints : For know 3"ou this and 
understand, that no covetous 
person hath inheritance in the 
kingdom of Christ and of God. 



Q. Who gave the Ten Com- 
mandments ? 

(Ex. 19. A. M. 2513.) In 
the third month of the depart- 
ure of Israel out of the land of 
Egypt, on this day they came 
into the wilderness of Sinai : 
for departing out of Eaphi- 
dim, and coming to the desert 
of Sinai, they camped in the 
same place, and there Israel 
pitched their tents over-against 
the mountain. And Moses 
went up to God : and the 
Lord, when he had ended his 
words in mount Sinai, gave to 
Moses two stone-tables of testi- 
mony, written with the finger 
of God. And the people seeing 
that Moses delayed to come 
down from the mount, gather- 
ing together against Aaron, 
said : Arise, make us gods, that 
may go before us : For as to 
this Moses, the man that 
brought us out of the land of 
Egypt, we know not what has 
befallen him. And Aaron said 
to them : Take the golden ear- 
rings from the ears of 3'our 
wives, and your sons and 
daughters, and bring them to 
me. And the people did what 
he had commanded, bringing 
the ear-rings to Aaron. And 
when he had received them, he 
fashioned them by founders' 
work, and made of them a mol- 
ten calf And they said : These 
are thy gods, Israel, that 
have brought thee out of the 
land of Egypt. And the Lord 
spoke to Moses, saying : Go, 
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which thou hast brought out 
of the land of Egypt, hath 
sinned. And Moses returned 
from the mount, carrjing the 
two tables of the testimony in 
his hand, written on both sides, 
and made by the work of God : 
the writing also of God was 
graven in the tables. And 
when he came nigh to the 
camp, he saw the calf, and the 
dances : and being very angry, 
he threw the tables out of his 
hand, and broke them at the 
foot of the mount : and after 
this God said : Hew thee two 
tables of stone like unto the 
former, and I will write upon 
them the words which were in 
the tables, which thou brokest. 
Then he cut out two tables of 
stone, such as had been before : 
and rising very early he went 



up into the mount Sinai, as the 
Lord had commanded him, car- 
rying with him the tables. 
And when the Lord was come 
down in a cloud, Moses stood 
with him, calling upon the 
name of the Lord. And the 
Lord said to Moses : Write 
thee these words by which I 
have made a covenant both 
with thee and with Israel. 
And he was there with the 
Lord forty days and forty 
nights : he neither ate bread 
nor drank water, and he wrote 
upon the tables the ten words 
of the covenant. And when 
Moses came down from the 
mount Sinai, he held the two 
tables of the testimony, and he 
knew not that his face was 
horned from the conversation 
of the Lord. 



LESSON THIRTIETH. 



ON THE FIRST COMMANDMENT. 



Q. WTiat is the first Com- 
mandment ? 

(Ex. 20. A. M. 2513.) The 
Lord spoke all these words : I 
am the Lord thy God, who 
brou«:ht thee ont of the land of 
Egypt, out of house of bond- 
age. Thou shalt not have 
strange gods before me. Thou 
shalt not make to thyself a 
graven thing, nor the likeness 
of anything that is in heaven 
above, or in the earth beneath, 
nor of those things that are in 
the waters under the earth. 



Thou shalt not adore them, nor 
serve them : I am the Lord thy 
God, mighty, jealous, visiting 
the iniquity of the fathers upon 
the children, unto the third and 
fourth generation of tliem that 
hate me : and shewing mercy 
unto thousands to them that 
love me. and keep my com- 
mandments. 

Q. How does the first Com- 
mandment help us to keep 
the great Commandment of 
the love of God ? 

See " L. of C," p. 72, No. 7. 



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Q. How do we adore Qod ? 

See"L. of C.,"p. 88, No.27. 

Q. How may the first Com- 
mandment be broken ? 

(Acts 12. A. D. 42.) Upon a 
day appointed, Herod being ar- 
rayed in kingly apparel, sat in 
the judgment-seat, and made | 
an oration to them. And the ' 
people made acclamation, say- 1 
ing: It is the voice of a God,! 



and not of a man. And forth- 



with an 



Angel 



of the Lord 



struck him, because he had not 
given the honour to God : and 
being eaten up by worms, he 
gave up the ghost. 

(Acts 14. A. D. 43.) There 
sat a certain man at Lystra, 
impotent in his feet, a cripple 
from his mother's womb, who 
never had walked. This same 
heard Paul speaking. Who 
looking upon him, and seeing 
that he had faith to be healed, 
said with a loud voice : Stand 
upright on thy feet. And he 
leaped up, and walked. And 
when tlie multitudes had seen 
w4iat Paul had done, they lifted 
up their voice in the Lycaonian 
tongue, sa3nng : The gods are 
come down to us in the likeness 
of men ; and they called Bar- 
nabas, Jupiter : but Paul, Mer- 
cury"; because he was chief 
speaker. The priest also of 
Jupiter that was before the 
city, bringing oxen and gar- 
lands before the gate, would 
have offered sacrifice with the 
people. Which, when the apos- 
tles Barnabas and Paul had 
heard, rending their clothes, 



thej^ leaped out among the peo- 
ple crying, and saying : Ye 
men, why do ye these things? 
We also are mortal men like 
unto you. 

(Jiidg.lT. A. M. 2886.) There 
was at that time a man of 
mount Ephraim whose name 
was Michas, who said to his 
mother: The eleven hundred 
pieces of silver, which thou 
hadst put aside for thyself, and 
concerning which thou didst 
swear in my hearing, behold I 
have, and they are with me. 
And she said to him : Blessed 
be my son by the Lord. So he 
restored them to his mother, 
who said to him : I have con- 
secrated and vowed this silver 
to the Lord, that my son may 
receive it at my hand, and 
make a graven and a molten 
god^ so now I deliver it to thee. 
And he restored them to his 
mother : and she took too hun- 
dred pieces of silver and gave 
them to the silversmith, to 
make of them a graven and a 
molten god, which was in the 
house of Michas. There was 
also another young man of 
Bethlehem Juda, of the kin- 
dred thereof: and he was a Le- 
vite, and dwelt there. Now he 
went out from the city of Beth- 
lehem, and desired to sojourn 
wheresoever he should find it 
convenient for him. And when 
he was come to mount Eph- 
raim, as he was on his journey, 
and had turned aside a little in- 
to the house of Michas, he 
was asked by him whence he 
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a Levite of Betblebem Juda, 
and I am going to dwell where 
I can, and where I shall find a 
])lace to my advantage. And 
Miebas said : Stay with me, 
and be unto me a lather and a 
.priest, and I will give thee 
every year ten pieces of silver, 
and a double suit of apparel, 
and thy victuals. He was con- 
tent, and abode with the man, 
and was unto him as one of bis 
sons. There went therefore of 
the kindred of Dan, to wit, 
from Saraa and Esthaol, six 
hundred men, furnished with 
arms for war, and going up 
they lodged in Gariathiarim of 
Juda: which place from that 
time is called the camp of Dan, 
and is behind Gariathiarim. 
From thence they passed into 
mount Ephraim. And when 
they were come to the house of 
Michas, and when they had 
turned a little aside, they went 
into the house of the young 
man the Levite, who was in the 
bouse of Michas : and they 
sainted him with words of 
peace. And the six hundred 
men stood before the door, ap- 
pointed with their arms. So 
they that were gone in took 
away the graven thing, the 
ephod, and the idols, and the 
molten god. And the priest 
said to them : What are you 
doing? And they said to him : 
Hold tb}^ peace and put thy 
finger on thy mouth and come 
with us, that we may have thee 
for a father, and a priest. 
Whether is better for thee, to 
be a priest in the house of one 



man, or in a tribe and family in 
Israel ? W^hen he had heard* 
this, he agreed to their words, 
and took the ephod, and the 
idols, and the graven god^ and 
departed with them. And the 
six hundred men took the 
priest, and the things we spoke 
of before, and came to Lais to 
a people that was quiet and se- 
cure, and smote them with the 
edge of the sword : and the 
city was burnt with fire. 

Q. Do those "who make use 
of spells and charms, or 
■who believe in dreams, in 
mediums, spiritists, fortune- 
tellers, and the like, sin 
against the first Command- 
ment? 

(Gen. 40, 41. A. M. 228Y.) 
After this, it came to pass, that 
two servants, the butler and the 
baker, of the king of Egypt, 
offended their lord. And Pha- 
rao being angry with them 
(now the one was chief butler, 
the other chief baker) he sent 
them to the prison of the com- 
mander of the soldiers, in which 
Joseph also was prisoner. But 
the keeper of the prison deliv- 
ered them to Joseph, and he 
served them. Some little time 
passed, and they were kept in 
custody. And they both 
dreamed a dream the same 
night, according to the inter- 
pretation agreeing to them- 
selves: and when Joseph was 
come in to them in the morn- 
ing, and saw them sad, he 
asked them, saying; Why is 
your countenance sadder to-day 
than usual? They answered: 



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We have dreamed a dream, 
and there is nobody to interpret 
it to us. And Joseph said to 
them : Doth not interpretation 
belong to God ? Tell me what 
you have dreamed? The chief 
butler first told his dream : I 
saw before me a vine, on which 
were three branches, which by 
little and little sent out buds, 
and after the blossoms brought 
forth ripe grapes ; and the cup 
of Pharao was in my hand : 
and I took the grapes, and 
pressed them into the cup 
which I hehl, and I gave the 
cup to Pharao. Joseph an- 
swered : This is the interpreta- 
tion of the dream : The three 
branches are yet three days : 
after which Pharao will remem- 
ber thy service, and will restore 
thee to thy former place : and 
thou shalt present him the cup 
according to thy office, as be- 
fore thou wast wont to do. Only 
remember me, when it shall be 
well with thee, and do me this 
kindness : to put Pharao in 
mind to take me out of this 
prison : for I was stolen away out 
of the land of the Hebrews, and 
here w^ithont any fault was cast 
into the dungeon. The chief 
baker seeing tliat he had wisely 
interpreted the dream, said : I 
also dreamed a dream : That I 
had three baskets of meal upon 
my head : and that in one bas- 
ket which was uppermost, I 
carried all meats that are made 
by the art of baking, and that 
the birds ate out of it. Joseph 
answered : This is the interpre- 
tation of the dream : The three 



baskets, are yet three days : 
after which Pharao will take 
thy head from thee, and hang 
thee on a cross, and the birds 
shall tear thy flesh. The third 
day after this was the birthday 
of Pharao : and he made a great 
feast for his servants, and at 
the banquet remembered the 
chief butler, and the chief baker, 
and he restored the one to his 
place to present him the cup : 
the other he hanged on a gib- 
bet, that the truth of the inter- 
preter might be shewn. But 
the chief butler, when things 
prospered with him, forgot his 
interpreter. After two years 
Pharao had a dream. He 
thought he stood by the river, 
out of which came up seven 
kine, very beautiful and fat : 
and they fed in marshy places. 
Other seven also came up out 
of the river, ill-favoured, and 
lean fleshed : and they fed on 
the very bank of the river, in 
green places : and they de- 
voured them, whose bodies were 
very beautiful and well condi- 
tioned. So Pharao awoke. He 
slept again, and dreamed an- 
other dream : Seven ears of 
corn came up upon one stalk 
full and fair : then seven other 
ears sprung up thin and blasted, 
and devoured all the beauty of 
the former. Pharao awaked 
after his rest : and when morn- 
ing was come, being struck 
with fear, he sent to all the in- 
terpreters of Egjq^t, and to all 
the wise men : and they being 
called for, he told them his 
dream, and there w^as not any 



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one that could interpret it. 
Tlien at length the chief butler 
remembering, said : There was 
a young man a Hebrew, serv- 
ant to the captain of the sol- 
diers : to whom we told our 
dreams, and we heard what af- 
terwards the event of the thing 
proved to be so. For I was re- 
stored to my office : and he was 
hanged upon a gibbet. Forth- 
with at the king's command, 
Joseph was brought out of the 
prison, and they shaved him, 
and changing his apparel, 
brought him in to him. Joseph 
answered : The king's dream is 
one : God hath shewn to Pha- 
rao what he is about to do. 
The seven beautiful kine, and 
the seven full ears, are seven 
years of plenty : and both con- 
tain the same meaning of the 
dream. And the seven lean 
and thin kine that came up af- 
ter them, and the seven thin 
ears that were blasted with the 
burning wind, are seven years 
of famine to come. And Pha- 
rao said to Joseph : Behold, I 
have appointed thee over the 
whole land of Egypt. And he 
took his ring from his own 
hand, and gave it into his hand : 
and he put upon him a robe of 
silk, and put a chain of gold 
about his neck. And he made 
him go up into his second char- 
iot, the crier proclaiming that 
all should bow their knee be- 
fore him, and that they should 
know he was made governor 
over the whole land of Egypt. 
And the king said to Joseph : 
I am Pharao ; without thy com- 



mandment no man shall move 
hand or foot in all the land 
of Egypt. And he turned his 
name, and called him in the 
Egyptian tongue the saviour of 
the world. 

(Ex. 7. A. M. 2513.) The 
Lord said to Moses and Aaron : 
When Pharao shall say to you, 
shew signs : thou shalt say to 
Aaron : Take thy rod, and cast 
it down before Pharao, and it 
shall be turned into a serpent. 
So Moses and Aaron went in 
unto Pharao, and did as the 
Lord had commanded. And 
Aaron took the rod before 
Pharao, and his servants, and it 
was turned into a serpent. And 
Pharao called the wise men and 
the magicians : and they also 
by Egyptian enchantments and 
certain secrets did in like man- 
ner, but Aaron's rod devoured 
theirs. 

(Deut. 18.) When thou art 
come into the land which the 
Lord thy God shall give thee, 
beware lest thou have a mind 
to imitate the abominations of 
those nations. Neither let there 
be found among you any one 
that shall expiate his son or 
daughter, making them to pass 
through the fire : or that con- 
sulteth soothsayers, or observ- 
eth dreams and omens, neither 
let there be an}'^ wizard, nor 
charmer, nor any one that con- 
sulteth pythonic spirits, or for- 
tune-tellers, or that seeketh the 
truth from the dead. For the 
Lord abhorreth all these things, 
and for these abominations he 
will destroy them at thy com- 



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ing. And if in silent thought 
thou answer : How shall I 
know the word that the Lord 
hath not spoken? Thou shalt 
have this sign: Whatsoever 
that same prophet foretelleth in 
the name of the Lord, and it 
Cometh not to pass : that thing 
the Lord hath not spoken, but 
the prophet hath forged it by 
the pride of his mind : and 
therefore thou shalt not fear 
him. 

(Deut. 13.) If there rise in 
the midst of thee a prophet or 
one that saith he hath dreamed 
a dream, and he foretell a sign 
and a wonder, and that come to 
pass which he spoke, and he say 
to thee : Let us go and follow 
strange gods, which thou know- 
est not, and let us serve them : 
Thou shalt not hear the words 
of that prophet or dreamer : for 
the Lord your God trieth 3^ou, 
that it may appear whether you 
love him with all yovw heart, 
and with all your soul, or no. 
Follow the Lord 3'our God, and 
fear him, and keep his com- 
mandments, and hear his voice : 
him you shall serve, and to him 
you shall -cleave. And that 
prophet or forger of dreams 
shall be slain : because he spoke 
to draw you away from the 
Lord your God. 

(I. Kings 28. A. M. 2949.) 
Saul saw the army of the Phil- 
istines, and was afraid, and his 
heart was very much dismayed. 
And he consulted the Lord, and 
he answered him not, neither 
by dreams, nor by priests, nor 
by prophets. And Saul said to 



his servants : Seek me a woman 
that hath a divining spirit, and 
I will go to her, and inquire by 
her. And his servants said to 
him: There is a woman that 
hath a divining spirit at Endor. 
Then he disguised himself: and 
put on other clothes, and he 
went, and two men with him, 
and they came to the woman by 
night. And the woman said to 
him : Whom shall I bring up 
to thee? And he said. Bring 
me up Samuel. And when the 
woman saw Samuel, she cried 
out with a loud voice, and said 
to Saul : Why hast thou de- 
ceived me? for thou art Saul. 
And the king said to her : Fear 
not : what hast thou seen ? And 
the woman said to Saul : I saw 
gods ascending out of the earth. 
And he said to her : What form 
is he of? And she said : An 
old man cometli up, and he is 
covered with a mantle. And 
Saul understood that it was 
Samuel, and he bowed himself 
with his face to the ground, and 
adored. And Samuel said to 
Saul : Why hast thou dis- 
turbed my rest, that I should 
be brought up ? And Saul said, 
I am in great distress : for the 
Philistines fight against me, 
and God is departed from me, 
and would not hear me, neither 
by the hand of prophets, nor 
by dreams : therefore I have 
called thee, that thou may est 
show me what I shall do. And 
Samuel said : Why askest thou 
me, seeing the Lord has de- 
parted from thee, and is gone 
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Lord will do to thee as he spoke 
by me, and he will rend thy 
kingdom out of thy hand, and 
will give it to thy neighbour 
David. 

(lY. Kings 1. A. M. 3108.) 
Ochozias fell through the lat- 
tices of his upper chamber which 
he had in Samaria, and was 
sick : and he sent messengers, 
saying to them : Go, consult 
Beelzebub, the god of Accaron, 
whether I shall recover of this 
my illness. And an angel of 
the Lord spoke to Elias the 
Thesbite, saying : Arise, and 
go up to meet the messengers 
of the king of Samaria, and 
say to them : Is there not a 
God in Israel, that ye go to 
consult Beelzebub the God of 
Accaron ? Wherefore thus saith 
the Lord: From the bed, on 
which thou art gone up, thou 
shalt not come down, but thou 
shalt surely die. And Elias 
went away. And the messen- 
gers turned back to Ochozias. 
And he said to them: Why 
are you come back? But they 
answered him : A man met us, 
and said to us : Go, and re- 
turn to the king, that sent you, 
and you shall say to him : Thus 
saith the Lord : Is it because 
there was no God in Israel that 
thou sendest to Beelzebub the 
God of Accaron ? And he said : 
It is Elias the Thesbite. And 
he sent to him a captain of fifty, 
and the fifty men that were 
under him. And he went np to 
him, and as he was sitting on 
the top of a hill, said to him : 
Man of God, the king hath 



commanded that thou come 
down. And Elias answering, 
said to the captain of fifty : If 
I be a man of God, let fire 
come down from heaven, and 
consume thee, and thy fifty. 
And there came down fire from 
heaven, and consumed him, and 
the fifty that were with him. 
And again he sent to him an- 
other captain of fifty men, and 
his fifty with him. And he said 
to him: Man of God, thus 
saith the king : Make haste and 
come down. Elias answering, 
said : If I be a man of God, 
let fire come down from heaven, 
and consume thee and thy fifty. 
And fire came down from 
heaven, and consumed him and 
his fifty. Again he sent a third 
captain of fifty men, and the 
fifty that were with him. And 
when he was come, he fell upon 
his knees, before Elias, and be- 
sought him and said : Man of 
God, despise not my life, and 
the lives of thy servants that 
are with me. Behold fire came 
down from heaven, and con- 
sumed the two first captains of 
fifty men, and the fifties that 
were with them : but now I be- 
seech thee to spare my life. 
And the angel of the Lord spoke 
to Elias, saying : Go down 
with him, fear not. He arose 
therefore, and went down with 
him to the king, and said to 
him: Thus saith the Lord: 
Because thou hast sent messen- 
gers to consult Beelzebub the 
god of Accaron, as though there 
were not a God in Israel, of 
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the word, therefore from the 
bed on which thou art gone up, 
thou shalt not come down, but 
thou shalt surely die. So he 
died according to the word of 
the Lord which Elias spoke. 

(Eccltus. 34.) The hopes of 
a man that is void of under- 
standing are vain and deceit- 
ful ; and dreams lift up fools. 
The man that giveth heed to 
lying visions, is like to him 
that catcheth at a shadow, and 
followeth after the wind. The 
vision of dreams is the re- 
semblance of one thing to an- 
other : as when a man's likeness 
is before the face of a man. 
What can be made clean by the 
unclean ? and what truth can 
come from that which is false? 
Deceitful divinations and ly- 
ing omens and the dreams of 
evil doers, are vanit3\ And 
the heart fancieth as that of a 
woman in travail : except it be 
a vision sent forth from the 
most High, set not thy heart 
upon them. For dreams have 
deceived man}^, and they have 
failed that put their trust in 
them. 

Q. Are sins against faith, 
hope, and charity also sins 
against the first Command- 
ment? 

See"L. ofC," p. 104, No. 6. 

Q. Ho-w does a person sin 
against faith ? 

See "L. of C," p. 38, No. 30; p. 71, No. 6. 

(Acts 13. A. D. 42.) Ser- 
gius Faulus, a prudent man, 
sending for Barnabas and Saul, 
desired to hear the word of 



God. But Elymas the magician 
(for so his name is interpreted) 
withstood them, seeking to turn 
away the proconsul from the 
faith. Then Saul, otherwise 
Paul, filled with the Holy 
Ghost, looking upon him, said : 
full of all guile, and of all de- 
ceit, child of the devil, enem^'- 
of all justice, thou ceasest not 
to pervert the right ways of the 
Lord. And now behold, the 
hand of the Lord is upon thee, 
and thou shalt be blind, not 
seeing the sun for a time. And 
immediatelj- there fell a mist 
and darkness upon him, and 
going about, he sought some one 
to lead him by the hand. Then 
the proconsul, when he had 
seen what was done, believed, 
admiring at the doctrine of the 
Lord. 

Q. Ho-w do -we fail to try to 
know what G-od has taught ? 

See"L of C," p. 88, No. 32. 

(II. Tim. 2.) Avoid foolish 
and unlearned questions, know- 
ing that they beget strifes. But 
the servant of the Lord must 
not wrangle: but be mild to- 
wards all men, apt to teach, 
patient, with modesty admon- 
ishing them that resist the 
truth : if peradventure God may 
give them repentance to know 
the truth, and they may recover 
themselves from the snares of 
the devil, by whom they are 
held captive at his will. 

(III. Kings 10. A.M. 3023.) 
The queen of Saba, having 
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to try bim with bard questions. 
And entering into Jerusalem 
with a great train, and riches, 
and camels that carried spices, 
and an immense quantity of 
gold, and precious stones, she 
came to king Solomon, and 
spoke to him all that she had 
in her heart. And Solomon 
informed her of all the things 
she proposed to him : there was 
not any word the king was ig- 
norant of, and which he could 
not answer her. And when the 
queen of Saba saw all the wis- 
dom of Solomon, and the bouse 
which he had built, and the 
meat of his table, and the apart- 
ments of his servants, and the 
order of his ministers, and their 
apparel, and tiie cup-bearers, 
and the holocaust, which he 
offered in the house of the 
Lord : she had no longer any 
spirit in her, and she said to 
the king : The report is true, 
which I heard in my own coun- 
try, concerning thy words, and 
concerning thy wisdom. And I 
did not believe them that told 
me, till I came myself, and saw 
with my own eyes, and have 
found that the half hath not 
been told me ; thy wisdom and 
thy works, exceed the fame 
which I heard. Blessed are 
thy men, and blessed are thy 
servants, who stand before thee 
always, and hear thy wisdom. 
Blessed be the Lord thy God, 
whom thou hast pleased, and 
who hath set thee upon the 
throne of Israel, because the 
Lord hath loved Israel for ever, 
and hath appointed thee king, 

11 



to do judgment and justice. 
And she gave the king a hun- 
dred and twenty talents of 
gold, and of spices a very great 
store, and precious stones : 
there was brought no more such 
abundance of spices as these 
which the queen of Saba gave 
to king Solomon. 

Q. "Who are they "who do not 
believe all that God has 
taught ? 

See " L. of C," p. 2^ Nos. 7,8: p. 60, No. 
20; p. 64, No. 26; p. 69, No. 40*. 

Q. "Who are they who neg- 
lect to profess their belief 
in what G-od has taught ? 

See " L. of C," p. 38, No. 31 ; p. 93, No. 38. 

Q. Can they who fail to pro- 
fess their faith in the true 
Church in which they be- 
lieve expect to be saved 
while in that state ? 

See " L. of C," p. 39, No. 33. 

(Rom. 10.) If thou con- 
fess with thy mouth the Lord 
Jesus, and believe in thy heart 
that God hath raised him up 
from the dead, thou shalt be 
saved. For, with the heart, we 
beli^eve unto justice ; but, with 
the mouth, confession is made 
unto salvation. 

Q. Are we obliged to make 
open profession of our 
faith ? 

See " L. of C," p. 65, No. 29. 

(II. Kings 6. A. M. 2960.) 
When the ark of the Lord was 
come into the city of David, 
Michol the daughter of Saul, 
looking out through a window, 
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dancing before the Lord : and 
she despised him in her heart. 
And they brought the ark of 
the Lord, and set it in its place 
in the midst of the tabernacle, 
which David had pitched for it: 
and David offered holocausts, 
and peace-offerings before the 
Lord. And when he had made 
an end of offering holocausts 
and peace-offerings, he blessed 
the people in the name of the 
Lord of hosts. And he dis- 
tributed to all the multitude of 
Israel, both men and women, to 
every one, a cake of bread, and 
a piece of roasted beef, and line 
flour fried with oil : and all the 
people departed every one to 
his house. And David returned 
to bless his own house : and 
Michol the daughter of Saul 
coming out to meet David, 
said : How glorious was the 
king of Israel to-day, uncover- 
ing himself before the hand- 
maids of his servants, and was 
naked, as if one of the buffoons 
should be naked. And David 
said to Michol: Before the 
Lord, who chose me rather than 
thy father, and than all his 
house, and commanded me to be 
ruler over the people of the 
Lord in Israel, I will both play 
and make myself meaner than 
I liave done : and I will be little 
in my own eyes : and with the 
handmaids of wiiom thou speak- 
est, I shall apy^ear more glori- 
ous. Therefore Michol the 
daughter of Saul had no child 
to the day of her death. 

Q. "Which are the sins against 
hope? 



(Rom. 2.) Thinkest thou 
this, man, that judgest them 
who do such things, and dost 
the sanle, that thou shalt es- 
cape the judgment of God ? Or 
despisest thou the riches of his 
goodness, and patience, and 
long-suffering ? Knowest thou 
not, that the benignity of God 
leadeth thee to penance? But 
according to thy hardness and 
impenitent heart, thou treasur- 
est up to thyself wrath, against 
the day of wrath, and revela- 
tion of the just judgment of 
God, who will render to every 
man according to his works. 

Q. What is persumption ? 

(Eccltus. 5.) Follow not in 
thy strength the desires of thy 
heart : and say not : How 
mighty am I? and who shall 
bring me under for my deeds ? 
for God will surely take re- 
venge. Say not : I, have sinned, 
and what harm hath befallen 
me ? for the most High is a pa- 
tient rewarder. Be not with- 
out fear about sin forgiven, and 
add not sin upon sin : and say 
not : The mercy of the Lord is 
great, he will have mercy on 
the multitude of my sins. For 
mercy and wrath quickly come 
from him, and his wrath look- 
eth upon sinners. Delay not 
to be converted to the Lord, 
and defer it not from day to 
day. For his wrath shall come 
on a sudden, and in the time of 
vengeance he will destroy thee. 

Q. "What is despair ? 

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(Ex. 4. A. M. 2513.) Moses 
said : I beseech thee, Lord, I 
am not eloquent from yesterda}^ 
and the day before: and since 
thou hast spoken to thy serv- 
ant, I have more impediment 
and slowness of tongue. The 
Lord said to him : Who made 
man's mouth ? or who made the 
dumb and the deaf, the seeing 
and the blind ? did not I. Go 
therefore, and I will be in thy 
mouth : and I will teach thee 
what thou shalt speak. But he 
said : I beseech thee. Lord, send 
whom thou wilt send. The 
Lord being angry at Moses, 
said : Aaron the Levite is thy 
brother, I know that he is elo- 
quent : behold he comet h forth 
to meet thee, and seeing thee 
shall be glad at heart. Speak 
to him, and put my words in 
bis mouth : and I will be in thy 
mouth, and in his mouth, and 
will show you what you must 
do. He sjiall speak in thy 
stead to the people, and shall 
be thy mouth : but thou shalt 
be to him in those things that 
pertain to God. 

(lY. Kings 6-7. A. M. 3117.) 
There was a great famine in 
Samaria : and so long did the 
siege continue, till the head of 
an ass was sold for fourscore 
pieces of silver. And Eliseus 
said : Hear ye the word of the 
Lord : Thus saith the Lord : 
To-morrow about this time a 
bushel of fine flour shall be sold 
for a stater, and two bushels of 
barley for a stater, in the gate 
of Samaria. Then one of the 
lords, upon whose hand the 



king leaned, answering the man 
of God, said : If the Lord 
should make flood-gates in 
heaven, can that possibly be 
which tho\i sayest? And he 
said : Thou shalt see it with 
thy eyes, but shalt not eat 
thereof. Now the Lord had 
made them hear, in the camp of 
Syria, the noise of chariots, 
and of horses, and of a very 
great army, and the}^ said one 
to another : Behold the king of 
Israel hath hired against us the 
kings of the Hethites, and of 
the Eg3^ptians, and they are 
come upon us. Wherefore they 
arose, and fled away in the dark, 
and left their tents, and their 
horses and asses in the camp, 
and fled, desiring to save their 
lives. And the people going 
out pillaged the camp of the 
Syrians : and a bushel of fine 
flour was sold for a stater, and 
two bushels of barley for a 
stater, according to the word 
of the Lord. And the king ap- 
pointed that lord on whose 
hand he leaned, to stand at the 
gate : and the people trod upon 
him in the entrance of the gate ; 
and he died, as the man of God 
had said, when the king came 
down to him. And it came to 
pass according to the word of 
the man of God, which he spoke 
to the king, when he said : Two 
bushels of barlej^ shall be for a 
stater, and a bushel of fine flour 
for a stater, at this very time 
to-morrow in the gate of Sa- 
maria. When that lord an- 
swered the man of God, and 
said : Although the Lord should 



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make flood-gates in heaven, 
could this come to pass which 
thou sayest? And he said to 
him : Thou shalt see with thy 
eyes, and shalt not eat thereof. 
And so it fell out to him as it 



was foretold, and the people 
trod upon him in the gate, and 
be died. 

Q. Hew do "we sin against 
the love of God ? 

See " L. of C," p. 69, No. 17. 



LESSON THIRTY-FIRST. 

THE FIRST COMMANDMENT — ON THE HONOR AND INVOCATION OF 

SAINTS. 



Q. Does the first Command- 
ment forbid the honoring of 
the saints ? 

(Acts 5. A. D. 33.) Now the 
multitude of men and women 
who believed in the Lord, was 
more increased insomuch that 
they brought forth the sick into 
the streets, and laid them on 
beds and couches, that when 
Peter came, his shadow at the 
least, might overshadow any of 
them, and they might be de- 
livered from their infirmities. 

Q. Does the first Oommand- 
ment forbid us to pray to 
the saints ? 

(Job 5.) Call now if there 
be any that will answer thee, 
and turn to some of the saints. 

Q. "What do we mean by 
praying to the saints ? 

(Esther 1. A. M. 3485.) In 
the days of Assuerus, the city 
Susan was the capital of his 
kingdom. Now in the third 
year of his reign he made a 
great feast for all the princes, 
and for his servants, also Vasthi 
the queen made a feast for the 
women in the palace, where 



king Assuerus was used to 
dwell. Now on the seventh 
day, when the king was merry, 
and after very much drinking 
was well warmed with wine, he 
commanded, the seven servants 
that served in his presence, to 
bring in queen Yasthi before 
the king, with the crown set 
upon her head, to shew her 
beautj'' to all the people and 
the princes : for she was ex- 
ceeding beautiful. But she re- 
fused, and would not come at 
the king's commandment, which 
he had signified to her by these 
servants. Whereupon the king, 
being angr}^, and inflamed with 
a very great fury, ordered : that 
Yasthi come in no more to the 
king, but another, that is better 
than her, be made queen in her 
place. There was a man in the 
city of Susan, a Jew, named 
Mardochai, tlie son of Jair, the 
son of Semei, the son of Cis, of 
the race of Jemini, who had 
been carried away from Jeru- 
salem at the time that Nabucho- 
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Juda, and he had brought up 
his brother'8 daughter Edissa, 
who by another name was called 
Esther : now she had lost both 
her parents : and was exceeding 
fair and beautiful. And her 
father and mother being dead, 
Mardochai adopted her for his 
daughter. And the king loved 
her more than all the women^ 
and she had favour and kind- 
ness before him above all the 
women, and he set the royal 
crown on her head, and made 
her queen instead of Yasthi. 
And she would not tell him 
her people nor her country. 
For Mardochai had charged her 
to say nothing at all of that : 
and he walked every day before 
the court of the house, in which 
the chosen virgins were kept, 
having a care for Esther's wel- 
fare, and desiring to know what 
would befall her. Now Mar- 
dochai the son of Jair, had a 
dream. And this was his 
dream : Behold there were 
voices, and tumults, and thun- 
ders, and earthquakes, and a 
disturbance upon the earth. 
And behold two great dragons 
came forth ready to fight one 
against another.. And at their 
cry all nations were stirred up 
to fight against the nation of 
the just. And that was a day 
of darkness and danger, of trib- 
ulation and distress, and great 
fear upon the earth. And the 
nation of the just was troubled 
fearing their own evils, and was 
prepared for death. And they 
cried to God : and as they were 
crying, a little fountain grew 



into a very great river, and 
abounded into many waters. 
The light and the sun rose up, 
and the humble were exalted, 
and they devoured the glorious. 
And when Mardochai had seen 
this, and arose out of his bed, 
he was thinking what God 
would do : and he kept it fixed 
in his mind, desirous to know 
what the dream should signify. 
At the time therefore, when 
Mardochai abode at the king's 
gate, two of the king's servants, 
who were porters, and presided 
in the first entry of the palace, 
were angry : and they designed 
to rise up against the king, and 
to kill him. And Mardochai 
had notice of it, and immedi- 
ately he told it to queen Esther: 
and she to the king in Mardo- 
chai's name, who had reported 
the thing unto her. It was in- 
quired into, and found out : and 
they were both hanged on a 
gibbet. And it was put in the 
histories, and recorded in the 
chronicles before the king. 
After these things, king Assu- 
erus advanced A man, the son 
of Amadathi, who was of the 
race of A gag: and he set his 
throne above all the princes 
that were with him. And all 
the king's servants, that were 
at the doors of the palace, bent 
their knees, and worshipped 
A man : for so the emperor had 
commanded them, only Mardo- 
chai did not bend his knee, nor 
worship him. Now when Aman 
had heard this, and had proved 
by experience that Mardochai 
did not bend his knee to him, 



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nor worship bim, be was ex- 
ceeding angr3^ And be count- 
ed it nothing to lay his hands 
upon Mardocbai alone : for be 
bad heard that he was of the 
nation of the Jews, and he 
chose rather to destroy all 
the nation of the Jews that 
were in tbe kingdom of Assuer- 
us. And A man said to kiug 
Assuerus : Tbere is a people 
scattered through all tbe prov- 
inces of tby kingdom, and 
separated one from another, 
that use new laws and ceremo- 
nies, and moreover despise the 
king's ordinances : and thou 
knowest very well that it is not 
expedient for tby kingdom tbat 
they sbould grow insolent b}' 
impunity. And tbe king took 
the ring that be used, from bis 
own hand, and gave it to Aman, 
tbe son of Amadathi of tbe 
race of Agag, the enemy of tbe 
Jews, and be said to him: As 
to tbe money which thou prom- 
ises t, keep it for thyself: and as 
to tbe people do with tbem as 
seemeth good to thee. And tbe 
king's scribes were called in tbe 
first month Nisan, on tbe tbir- 
teenth day of tbe same month : 
and tbey wrote, as Aman bad 
commanded, to all tbe king's 
lieutenants, and to tbe judges 
of tbe provinces, and of divers 
nations, as every nation could 
read, and bear according to 
tbeir different languages, in tbe 
name of king Assuerus : and 
tbe letters sealed with bis ring 
were sent by the king's mes- 
sengers to all provinces, to kill 
and destroj'- all tbe Jews, both 



young and old, little children, 
and women, in one dav, tbat is, 
on the thirteenth of tbe twelfth 
month, which is called Adar, 
and to make a spoil of their 
goods. And wben Mardocbai 
bad heard tbis, be sent word to 
Esther, saying : Tbink not tbat 
thou mayst save tby life onlj', 
because tbou art in tbe king's 
bouse, more tban all tbe Jews: 
for if tbou wilt now bold tby 
peace, tbe Jews sball be deliv- 
ered by some otber occasion : 
and tbou, and tby father's bouse 
sball perish. And who know- 
eth whether thou art not there- 
fore come to tbe kingdom, tbat 
tbou mightest be ready in such 
a time as tbis? And Esther 
sent to Mardocbai in these 
words : Go, and gather together 
all the Jews whom tbou sbalt 
find in Susan, and pray ye for 
me. Neither eat nor drink for 
three days and three nights: 
and I with m}' handmaids will 
fast in like manner, and tben I 
will go in to tbe king, against 
tbe law, not being called, and 
expose myself to death and to 
danger. So Mardocbai went, 
and did all tbat Esther bad 
commanded him. And on tbe 
tliird day Esther put on her 
royal apparel, and stood in tbe 
inner court of tbe king's bouse, 
over-against tbe king's ball : 
now he sat upon his throne in 
tbe ball of the palace, over- 
against tbe door of tbe house. 
And wben be saw Esther tbe 
queen standing, she pleased his 
e3''es, and be held out toward 
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he held in his hand : and she 
drew near, and kissed the top 
of his sceptre. And the king 
said to her; What wilt thou, 
queen Esther? what is thy re- 
quest ? if thou shouldst even 
ask oue half of the kingdom, 
it shall be given to thee. And 
Esther answered: My petition 
and request is this : if I have 
found favour in the king's sight, 
and if it please the king to 
give nie what I ask, and to ful- 
fil m}^ petition : let the king 
and Aman come to the banquet 
which I have prepared them, 
and to-morrow I will open my 
mind to the king. That night 
the king passed without sleep, 
and he commanded the histories 
and chronicles of former times 
to be brought him. And when 
they were reading them before 
him, they came to that place 
where it was written, how 
Mardochai had discovered the 
treason of the servants, who 
sought to kill king Assuerus. 
And when the king heard this, 
he said : What honour and re- 
ward hath Mardochai received 
for this fidelity ? His servants 
and ministers said to him: He 
hath received no reward at all. 
And the king said immediately: 
Who is in the court ? for Aman 
was coming in to the inner 
court of the king's house, to 
speak to the king, that he 
might order Mardochai to be 
hanged upon the gibbet which 
was prepared for him. The 
servants answered: Aman 
standeth in the court, and the 
king said : Let him come in. 



And when he was come in, he 
said to him : What ought to be 
done to the man whom the king 
is desirous to honour? But 
Aman thinking in his heart, 
and supposing that the king 
would honour no other but 
himself, answered : The man 
whom the king desireth to hon- 
our, ought to be clothed with 
the king's apparel, and to be 
set upon the horse that the 
king rideth upon, and to 
have the royal crown upon 
his head, and let the first 
of the king's princes and nobles 
hold his horse, and going 
through the street of the city, 
proclaim before him and say : 
Thus shall he be honoured, 
whom the king hath a mind to 
honour. And the king said to 
him : Make haste and take the 
robe and the horse, and do as 
thou hast spoken to Mardochai 
the Jew, who sitteth before the 
gates of the palace. Beware 
thou pass over any of those 
things which thou hast spoken. 
So Aman took the robe and the 
horse, and arra3'ing Mardochai 
in the street of the city, and set- 
ting him on the horse, went be- 
fore him, and proclaimed: This 
honour is he worthy of, whom 
the king hath a mind to honour. 
And Mardochai returned to the 
palace gate : And Aman made 
haste to go to his house, mourn- 
ing and having his head covered: 
and he told Zares his wife, and 
his friends, all that had befallen 
him. And the king said forth- 
with : Call ye Aman quickly, 
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So the king and Aman went in, 
to drink with the queen. And 
the king said to her again the 
second day, after he was warm 
with wine ; What is thy peti- 
tion, Esther, that it may be 
granted thee? and what wilt 
thou have done : although thou 
ask the half of my kingdom, 
thou shalt have it. Then she 
answered : If I have found fa- 
vour in thy sight, O king, and 
if it please thee, give me my 
life for which I ask, and my 
people for which I request. 
For we are given up, I and my 
people, to be destroyed, to be 
slain, and to perish. And would 
God we were sold for bond-men 
and bond-women : the evil 
might be borne with, and I 
would have mourned in silence : 
but now we have an enem}-, 
whose cruelty redoundeth upon 
the king. And king Assuerus 
answered and said : Who is this, 
and of what power, that he 
should do these things? And 
Esther said: It is this Aman 
that is our adversary and most 
wicked enemy. Aman hearing 
this was forthwith astonished, 
not being able to bear the coun- 
tenance of the king and of the 
queen. But the king being 
angry rose up, and went from 
the place of the banquet into 
the garden set with trees. 
Aman also rose up to entreat 
Esther the queen for his life, 
for he understood that evil was 
prepared for him by the king. 
And Harbona, one of the serv- 
ants that stood waiting on the 
king, said: Behold the gibbet 



which he hath prepared for 
Mardochai, who spoke for the 
king, standeth in Aman's house, 
being lift}' cubits high. And 
the king said to him : Hang him 
upon it. So Aman was hanged 
on the gibbet, which he had 
prepared for Mardochai : and 
the king's wrath ceased. On 
that day king Assuerus gave 
the house of Aman, the Jews' 
enemy, to queen Esther, and 
Mardochai came in before the 
king. For Esther had con- 
fessed to him that he was her 
uncle. And the king took the 
ring which he had commanded 
to be taken again from Aman, 
and gave it to Mardochai. And 
Esther set Mardochai over her 
house. And not content with 
these things, she fell down at 
the king's feet and wept, and 
speaking to him besought him, 
that he would give orders that 
the malice of Aman the Agag- 
ite, and his most wicked de- 
vices which he had invented 
against the Jews, should be of 
no effect. And the king gave 
orders to them, to speak to the 
Jews in every city, and to com- 
mand them to gather them- 
selves together, and to stand 
for their lives, and to kill and 
destroy all their enemies with 
their wives. So the Jews made 
a great slaughter of their en- 
emies, and killed them, repay- 
ing according to what they had 
prepared to do to them : then 
Mardochai said : God hath done 
these things. I remember a 
dream that I saw, which signi- 
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nothing thereof hath failed. 
The little fountain which grew 
into a river, and was turned 
into a light, and into the sun, 
and abounded into many 
waters, is Esther, whom the 
king married, and made queen. 
But the two dragons; are I, 
and Aman. The nations that 
were assembled : are they that 
endeavoured to destroy the 
name of the Jews. And my 
nation: is Israel, who cried to 
the Lord, and the Lord saved 
his people : and he delivered us 
from all evils, and hath wrought 
great signs and wonders among 
the nations. 

Q. Hew do Tve know that the 
saints hear us ? 

(Acts 9. A. D. 39.) It 
came to pass that Peter, as he 
passed through, visiting all, 
came to the saints who dwelt at 
Lydda. And he found there a 
certain man named Eneas, who 
had kept his bed for eight 
years, who was ill of the palsy. 
And Peter said to him : Eneas, 
the Lord Jesus Christ healeth 
thee : arise, and make thy bed. 
And immediately he arose. 

(11. Mach. 15. A. M. 3843.) 
Now when Nicanor understood 
that Judas was in the places of 
Samaria, he purposed to set 
upon him with all violence on 
the sabbath day. But Macli- 
abeus ever trusted with all 
hope that God would help them. 
And he exhorted his people not 
to fear the coming of the na- 
tions, and told them a dream 
worthy to be believed, whereby 



he rejoiced them all. Now the 
vision was in this manner: Onias 
who had been high priest, a 
good and virtuous man, modest 
in his looks, gentle in his man- 
ners, and graceful in his speech, 
and who from a child was ex- 
ercised in virtues, holding up 
his hands, prayed for all the 
people of the Jews : after this 
there appeared also another 
man, admirable for age, and 
glor}^, and environed with great 
beauty and majesty : then 
Onias answering, said : This is 
a lover of his brethren, and of 
the people of Israel : this is he 
that prayeth much for the peo- 
ple, and for all the holy city, 
Jeremias the prophet of God. 
Whereupon Jeremias stretched 
forth his right hand, and gave 
to Judas a sword of gold, say- 
ing : Take this holy sword a 
gift from God, wherewith thou 
shalt overthrow the adversaries 
of my people Israel. 

Q. "Why do we believe that 
the saints ■will help us ? 

(Gal. 3.) You are all the 
children of God by faith, in 
Christ Jesus. For as many of 
you as have been baptized in 
Christ, have put on Christ. 
There is neither Jew nor 
Greek : there is neither bond 
nor free : there is neither male 
nor female. For you are all 
one in Christ Jesus. And if 
you be Christ's, then are you 
the seed of Abraham, heirs ac- 
cording to the promise. 

(Heb. 12.) You are not 
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be touched, and a burning fire, 
and a whirlwind, and darkness, 
and storm, and the sound of a 
trumpet, and the voice of 
words, which they that heard 
excused themselves, that the 
word might not be spoken to 
them : for the}^ did not endure 
that which was said : And if so 
much as a beast shall touch the 
mounts it shall be stoned. And 
so terrible was that which was 
seen , Moses said : / am fright- 
ed, and tremble. But you are 
come to mount Sion, and to the 
city of the living God, the 
heavenly Jerusalem, and to the 
comi)any of many thousands of 
angels, and to the church of 
the first-born, who are written in 
the heavens, and to God the 
judge of all, and to the spirits 
of the just made perfect, and 
to Jesus the mediator of the 
new testament, and to the 
sprinkling of blood which 
speaketh better than that of 
Abel. 

Q. How are the saints and 
we members of the same 
Church ? 

(Rom. 12.) I beseech you, 
brethren, by the mercy of God, 
that you present your bodies a 
living sacrifice, hol}^ pleasing 
unto God, 3^our reasonable serv- 
ice. And be not conformed to 
this world; but be reformed in 
the newness of your mind, that 
you may prove what is the 
good, and the acceptable, and 
the perfect will of God. For I 
say, by the grace that is given 
me, to all that are among you, 



not to be more wise than it be- 
hoveth to be wise, but to be 
wise unto sobriety, and accord- 
ing as God hath divided to 
everj^ one the measure of faith. 
For as in one bod}^ we have 
many members, but all the 
members have not the same of- 
fice : so we being many, are 
one body in Christ, and every 
one members one of another. 

Q. "What is the communion 
of the members of the 
Church called ? 

(Eph. 2.) Now therefore 
3'ou are no more strangers and 
foreigners ; but you are fellow- 
citizens with the saints, and the 
domestics of God, built upon 
the foundation of the apostles 
and prophets, Jesus Christ him- 
self being the chief corner- 
stone. 

Q. "What does the com- 
munion of saints mean ? 

(I. Cor. 12.) As the body is 
one, and hath many members ; 
and all the members of the body, 
whereas they are many, yet are 
one body, so also is Christ. 
For in one Spirit were we all 
baptized into one bod}^ whether 
Jews or Gentiles, whether bond 
or free ; and in one Spirit we 
have all been made to drink. 
For the body also is not one 
member, but man3\ If the 
foot should say, because I am 
not the hand, I am not of the 
body ; is it therefore not of the 
bod}^ ? And if the ear should 
say, because I am not the e3*e, I 
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fore not of the body ? If the 
whole body were the eye, where 
would be the hearing ? If the 
whole were hearing, where 
would be the smelling? But 
now God hath set the members 
every one of them in the body 
as it hath pleased him. And if 
they all were one member, 
where would be the body? But 
now there are many members 
indeed, yet one body. And the 
eye cannot say to the hand : I 
need not thy help ; nor again 
the head to the feet : I have no 
need of 3^ou. Yea, much more 
those that seem to be the more 
feeble members of the body, are 
more necessary. 

Q. 'What benefits are derived 
from the coramunion of 
saints ? 

(Rom. 15.) I beseech you, 
brethren, through our Lord 
Jesus Christ, and by the char- 
ity of the Holy Ghost, that you 
help me in your prayers for 
me to God, that I may be de- 
livered from the unbelievers 
that are in Judea, and that the 
oblation of my service may be 
acceptable in Jerusalem to the 
saints. That I may come to 
you with joy, by the will of 
God, and may be refreshed 
with you. Now the God of 
peace be with you all. Amen. 

(I. Tim. 2.) I desire there- 
fore, first of all, that supplica- 
tions, prayers, intercessions, 
and thanksgivings be made for 
all men : for kings, and for all 
that are in high station : that 
we may lead a quiet and a 



peaceable life in all piety and 
chastit3\ For this is good and 
acceptable in the sight of God 
our Saviour, who will have all 
men to be saved, and to come 
to the knowledge of the truth. 

Q. Does the first Command- 
ment forbid us to honour 
relics ? 

(Acts 19. A. D. 56.) God 
wrought by the hand of Paul 
more than common miracles. 
So that even there were brought 
from his body to the sick, hand- 
kerchiefs and aprons, and the 
diseases departed from them, 
and the wicked spirits went 
out of them. 

Q. Does the first Command- 
ment forbid the making of 
images ? 

(Dan. 3. A. M. 3417.) King 
Nabuchodonosor made a statue 
of gold, of sixty cubits high, 
and six cubits broad, and he set 
it up in the plain of Dura of 
the province of Babj^lon. Then 
Nabuchodonosor the king sent 
to call together the nobles, the 
magistrates, and the judges, 
the captains, the rulers, and 
governors, and all the chief 
men of the provinces, to come 
to the dedication of the statue 
which king Nabuchodonosor had 
set up. Then a herald cried 
with a strong voice : To 3^ou it 
is commanded, nations, tribes, 
and languages : That in the 
hour that you shall hear the 
sound of the trumpet, ye fall 
down and adore the golden 
statue which king Nabucho- 
donosor hath set up. But if any 



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man shall not fall down and 
adore, be shall the same hour 
be cast into a furnace of burn- 
ing fire. Upon this therefore, 
at the time when all the people 
heard the sound of the trum- 
pet, all the nations, tribes, and 
languages fell down and adored 
the golden statue which king 
Nabuchodonosor had set up. 
And presently at that very 
time some Chaldeans came and 
accused the Jews, and said to 
king Nabuchodonosor : O king, 
live for ever : there are certain 
Jews whom thou hast set over 
the works of the province of 
Babylon, Sidrach, Misach, and 
Abdenago : these men, king, 
have slighted thy decree : they 
worship not thy gods, nor do 
the}'^ adore the golden statue 
which thou hast set up. Then 
Nabuchodonosor in fury, and 
in wrath, commanded that Si- 
drach, Misach, and Abdenago 
should be brought : who im- 
mediately w^ere brought before 
the king. And Nabuchodono- 
sor the king spoke to them, and 
said : Is it true, O Sidrach, 
Misach, and Abdenago, that 
you do not worship my gods, 
nor adore the golden statue that 
I have set up ? Sidrach, Mi- 
sach, and Abdenago answered 
and said to king Nabuchodono- 
sor: We have no occasion to 
answer thee concerning this 
matter. For behold our God, 
whom we worship, is able to 
save us from the furnace of 
burning fire, and to deliver us 
out of thy hands, O king. But 
if he will not, be it known to 



thee, O king, that we will not 
worship thy gods, nor adore 
the golden statue which thou 
hast set up. Then was Nabu- 
chodonosor filled with fury : 
and immediately these men 
were bound and were cast into 
the furnace of burning fire, with 
their coats, and their caps, and 
their shoes, and their garments. 
For the king's commandment 
was urgent, and the furnace 
was heated exceedingly. And 
the flame of the fire slew those 
men that had cast in Sidrach, 
Misach, and Abdenago. But 
these three men, that is, Si- 
drach, Misach, and Abdenago, 
fell down bound in the midst of 
the furnace of burning fire. 
And they walked in the midst 
of the flame, praising God and 
blessing the Lord. Then Nab- 
uchodonosor the king was as- 
tonished, and rose up in haste, 
and said to his nobles : Did we 
not cast three men bound into 
the midst of the fire? They 
answered the king, and said : 
True, O king. He answered, 
and said ; Behold I see four 
men loose, and walking in the 
midst of the fire, and there is 
no hurt in them, and the form 
of the fourth is like the son of 
God. Then Nabuchodonosor 
can^e to the door of the burning 
fiery furnace, and said : Sidrach, 
Misach, and Abdenago, ye 
servants of the most high God, 
go ye forth, and come. And 
immediately Sidrach, Misach, 
and Abdenago went out from 
the midst of the fire. And the 
nobles, and the magistrates, 



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and the judges, and the great j 
men of the king being gathered 
together, considered these men, 
that the fire had no power on 
their bodies, and that not a hair 
of their head had been singed, 
nor their garments altered, nor 
the smell of the fire had passed 
on them. Then Nabuchbdono- 
sor breaking forth, said : 
Blessed be the God of them, 
to wit, of Sidraeh, Misach, and 
Abdenago, who hath sent his 
Angel, and delivered his serv- 
ants that believed in him : and 
they changed the king's word, 
and delivered up their bodies 
that they might not serve, nor 
adore any god, except their own 
God. By me therefore this 
decree is made, that every 
people, tribe, and tongue, 
which shall speak blasphem}^ 
against the God of Sidraeh, 
Misach, and Abdenago, shall 
be destroyed, and their houses 
laid waste : for there is no other 
God that can save in this man- 
ner. Then the king promoted 
Sidraeh, Misach, and Abdenago, 
in the province of Babylon. 

(Acts 19. A. D. 57.) Now 
at that time there arose no 
small disturbance about the 
way of the Lord. For a cer- 
tain man named Demetrius, a 
silversmith, who made silver 
temples for Diana, brought no 
small gain to the craftsmen ; 
whom he calling together, with 
the workmen of like occupation, 
said: Sirs, 3'ou know that our 
gain is by this trade ; and 3'ou 
see and hear, that this Paul by 
persuasion hath drawn away a 



great multitude, not only of 
Ephesus, but almost of all Asia, 
saj^ing : They are not gods 
which are made by hands. So 
that not only this our craft is 
in danger to be set at nought, 
but also the temple of great 
Diana shall be reputed for noth- 
ing ; yea, and her majesty shall 
begin to be destroyed, whom all 
Asia and the world woiship[)eth. 
Having heard these things, they 
were full of anger, and cried 
out, saying : Great is Diana of 
the Ephesians. 

Q. Is it right to sho"W respect 
to the pictures and images 
of Christ and His saints ? 

See'*L. of C.,"p. 31, No. 6. 

Q. Is it allowed to pray to 
the crucifix or to the images 
and relics of the saints ? 

See ''L. of C," p. 41, No. 40. 

(lY. Kings 13. A. M. 3165.) 
Eliseus died, and they buried 
him. And the rovers from 
Moab came into the land the 
same year. And some that were 
burying a man, saw the rovers, 
and cast the body into the sep- 
ulchre of Eliseus. And when 
it had touched the bones of 
Eliseus, the man came to life, 
and stood upon his feet. 

Q. "Why do V7e pray before 
the crucifix and the images 
and relics of the saints ? 

(Gal. 6.) God forbid that I 
should glory, save in the cross 
of our Lord Jesus Christ ; by 
whom the world is crucified to 
me, and I to the world. 



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FROM THE SECOND TO THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT. 



Q. "What is the second Com- 
mandment ? 

See"L.of C.,"p. 32, No. 11. 

(Ex. 20.) Thou Shalt not 
take the name of the Lord thy 
God in vain : for the Lord will 
not hold him guiltless that shall 
take the name of the Lord his 
God in vain. 

(Phil. 2.) Let nothing be 
done through contention, neith- 
er by vain-glory : but in humil- 
ity, let each esteem others bet- 
ter than themselves : each one 
not considerino: the thino^s that 
are his own, but those that are 
other men's. For let this mind 
be in you, which was also in 
Christ Jesus : who being in the 
form of God, thought it not 
robbery to be equal with God : 
but emptied himself, taking the 
form of a servant, being made 
in the likeness of men, and in 
habit found as a man. He hum- 
bled himself, becoming obedi- 
ent unto death, even to the 
death of the cross. For which 
cause God also hath exalted 
him, and hath given him a 
name which is above all names : 
that in the name of Jesus every 
knee should bow, of those that 
are in heaven, on earth, and 
under the earth : and that every 
tongue should confess that the 
Lord Jesus Christ is in the 
glory of God the Father. 

Q. "What are -we commanded 
by the second Command- 
ment? 

See"L. of C.,"p. 92, No. 35. 



Q. "What is an oath ? 

(Heb. 6.) God making prom- 
ise to Abraham, because he had 
no one greater by whom he 
might' swear, swore by himself, 
saying : Unless blessing I shall 
bless thee^ and mvltiplying I 
shall multiply thee. And so 
patientl}" enduring he obtained 
the promise. For men swear 
by one greater than themselves : 
and an oath for confirmation is 
the end of all their controversy. 
Wherein God, meaning more 
abundantl}^ to shew to the heirs 
of the promise the immutability 
of his counsel, interposed an 
oath : that by two immutable 
things, in which it is impos- 
sible for God to lie, we may 
have the strongest comfort, who 
have fled for refuge to hold fast 
the hope set before us. 

Q. "When may ^we take an 
oath? 

(James 5.) Above all things, 
my brethren, swear not, neither 
by heaven, nor by the earth, 
nor by any other oath. But 
let your speech be, yea, yea : 
no, no : that you fall not under 
judgment. 

(Jer. 4.) And thou shalt 
swear: As the Lord tiveth, in 
truth, and in judgment, and in 
justice: and the Gentiles shall 
bless him, and shall praise him. 

Q. What is necessary to make 
an oath lawful ? 

(Eccltus. 23.) A man that 



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sweareth much, shall be filled 
with iniquity, and a scourge 
shall not depart from his house. 
And if he make it void, his 
sin shall be upon him : and if 
he dissemble it, he offendeth 
double : and if he swear in vain, 
he shall not be justified : for his 
house shall be filled with his 
punishment. 

Q. "What is a vo"W ? 

(Eccltus. 5.) If thou hast 
vowed any thing to God, defer 
not to pay it : for an unfaithful 
and foolish promise displeaseth 
him : but whatsoever thou hast 
vowed, pay it. And it is much 
better not to vow, than after a 
vow not to perform the things 
promised. 

Q. Is it a sin not to fulfil our 

VO"WS? 

(Lev. 27. A. M. 2514.) The 
Lord spoke to Moses, saying : 
Speak to the children of Israel, 
and thou shalt say to them : 
The man that shall have made 
a vow, and promised his soul 
to God, shall give the price 
according to estimation. Any 
thing that is devoted to the 
Lord, whether it be man, or 
beast, or field, shall not be sold, 
neither may it be redeemed. 
Whatsoever is once consecrated 
shall be holy of holies to the 
Lord. 

(Num. 30.) Moses said to 
the princes of the tribes of the 
children of Israel: This is the 
word that the Lord hath com- 
manded : if any man make a 
vow to the Lord, or bind him- 



self by an oath : he shall not 
make his word void but shall 
fulfil all that he promised. If 
a woman vow any thing, and 
bind herself by an oath, being 
in her father's house, and but 
yet a girl in age : if her father 
knew the vow that she hath 
promised, and the oath where- 
with she hath bound her soul, 
and held his peace, she shall be 
bound by the vow : whatsoever 
she promised and swore, she 
shall fulfil in deed. But if her 
father, immediately as soon as 
he heard it, gain-said it, both 
her vows and her oaths shall be 
void, neither shall she be bound 
to what she promised, because 
her father hath gain-said it. If 
she have a husband, and shall 
vow any thing, and the word 
once going out of her mouth 
shall bind her soul by an oath : 
the day that her husband shall 
hear it, and not gain-say it, she 
shall be bound to the vow, and 
shall give whatsoever she prom- 
ised. But if as soon as he hear- 
eth be gain-say it, and make 
her promises and the words 
wherewith she had bound her 
soul of no effect : the Lord will 
forgive her. If she vow and 
bind herself by oath, to aflOiict ^ 
her soul by fasting, or absti- 
nence from other things, it shall 
depend on the will of her hus- 
band, w^hether she shall do it, 
or not do it. But if the hus- 
band hearing it hold his peace, 
and defer the declaring his mind 
till another day : whatsoever 
she had vowed and promised, 
she shall fulfil : because imme- 



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cliately as he beard it, he held 
his peace. But if he gain-say 
it after that he knew it, he shall 
bear her iniquity. 

(Dent. 23.) When thou hast 
made a vow to the Lord thy 
God, thou shalt not delay to 
pay it : because the Lord thy 
God will require it. And if 
thou delay, it shall be imputed 
to thee for a sin. If thou wilt 
not promise, thou shalt be with- 
out sin. But that which is once 
gone out of thy lips, thou shalt 
observe, and shalt do as thou 
hast promised to the Lord thy 
God, and hast spoken with thy 
own will and with thy own 
mouth. 

Q. "What is forbidden by the 
second Commandment ? 

See '' L. of C," p. 32, No. 11. 

(Lev. 24. A. M. 2514.) Be- 
hold there went out the son of 
a woman of Israel, whom she 
had of an Egyptian, among the 
children of Israel, and fell at 
words in the camp with a man 
of Israel. And when he had 
blasphemed the name, and had 
cursed it, he was brought to 
Moses : (now his mother was 
called Salumith, the daughter 
of Dabri, of the tribe of Dan :) 
and they put him into prison, 
till they might know what the 
Lord would command. And 
the Lord spoke to Moses, say- 
ing: Bring forth the blas- 
phemer without the camp, and 
let them that heard him, put 
their hands upon his head, and 
let all the people stone him. 
And thou shalt speak to the 



children of Israel : the man 
that curseth his God, shall bear 
his sin : and he that blas- 
phemeth the name of the Lord, 
dying let him die : all the mul- 
titude shall stone him, whether 
he be a native or a stranger. 
He that blasphemeth the name 
of the Lord, dying let him die. 

Q. "What is the third Com- 
mandment ? 

(Gen. 2. A. M. 1.) So the 
heavens and the earth were 
finished, and all the furniture 
of them. And on the seventh 
day God ended his work which 
he had made : and he rested on 
the seventh day from all his 
work which he had done. And 
he blessed the seventh da}^ and 
sanctified it : because in it he 
had rested from all his work 
which God created and made. 

Q. "What are "we commanded 
by the third Command- 
ment? 

(Ex. 20.) Remember that 
thou keep holy the sabbath day. 
Six days shalt thou labour, and 
shalt do all thy works. But on 
the seventh day is the sabbath 
of the Lord thy God : thou 
shalt do no w^ork on it, thou 
nor thy son, nor thy daughter, 
nor thy man-servant, nor thy 
maid servant, nor thy beast, nor 
the stranger that is within thy 
gates. For in six days the 
Lord made heaven and earth, 
and the sea, and all things that 
are in them, and rested on the 
seventh day : therefore the 
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Q. How are we to worship 
Q-od on Sundays and holy- 
days of obligation ? 

See^'L. of C.,"p. 68, No. 38. 

Q. Are the Sabbath day and 
the Sunday the same ? 

See"L. of C.,''p. 28, No. 1. 

Q. "Why does the Church 
command us to keep the 
Sunday holy instead of the 
Sabbath ? 

See "L. of C," p. 124, No. 18; p. 125, No. 
23. 

Q. "What is forbidden by the 
third commandment ? 

(Lev. 23. A. M. 2514.) The 
Lord spoke to Moses, saying : 
Speak to the children of Israel, 



and thou shalt say to them : 
These are the feasts of the 
Lord, which you shall call holy. 
Six days shall yQ do work : the 
seventh day, because it is the 
rest of the sabbath, shall be 
called holy. You shall do no 
work on that day : it is the 
sabbath of the Lord in all j^our 
habitations. These also are the 
holy-days of the Lord, which 
3'ou must celebrate in their 
seasons. 

Q. What are servile ^works ? 
See'*L. of C.,"p. 71,No. 4. 

Q. Are servile -works on 
Sunday ever lawful ? 

See "L. of C," p. 30, Nos. 3, 4. 



LESSON THIRTY-THIRD. 



FROM THE FOURTH TO THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT. 



Q. "What is the fourth Com- 
mandment ? 

(Ex. 20.) Honour thy father 
and thy mother, that thou 
mayest be long-lived upon the 
land which the Lord thy God 
will give thee. 

Q. What are -we comnianded 
by the fourth Command- 
ment ? 

See " L. of C," p. 91, No. 34. 

(Deut. 21.) If a man have a 
stubborn and unruly son, who 
will not hear the command- 
ments of his father or mother, 
and being corrected, slighteth 
obedience : they shall take him 
and brin^ him to the ancients 



of his city, and to the gate of 
j udgment, and shall say to them : 
This our son is rebellious and 
stubborn, he slighteth hearing 
our admonitions, he giveth 
himself to revelling, and to 
debauchery and banquetings : 
the people of the city shall 
stone him : and he shall die, 
that you ma}^ take away the 
evil out of the midst of you, 
and all Israel hearing it may 
be afraid. 

Q. Are we bound to honour 
and obey others than our 
parents ? 

(I. Kings 14. A. M. 2911.) 
Now it came to pass one day 



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that Jonathan the son of Saul 
said to the 3'oiing man that bore 
his armour : Come, and let us 
go over to the garrison of the 
Philistines, which is on the 
other side of yonder place. 
But he told not this to his 
father. And Jonathan went up 
creeping on his hands and feet, 
and his armour-bearer after 
him. And some fell before 
Jonathan, others his armour- 
bearer slew as he followed him. 
And the watchmen of Saul, 
who were in Gabaa of Benjamin 
looked and behold a multitude 
overthrown, and fleeing this 
way and that. Then Saul and 
all the people that were with 
him, shouted together, and they 
came to the place of the fight : 
and behold every man's sword 
was turned upon his neighbour, 
and there was a very great 
slaughter. And the Lord 
saved Israel that day. And 
the fight went on as far as Beth- 
aven. And tiie men of Israel 
were joined together that day ; 
and Saul adjured the people, 
saying : Cursed be the man that 
shall eat food till evening, till I 
be revenged of my enemies. So 
none of the people tasted any 
food : and all the common peo- 
ple came into a forest, in which 
there w^as honey upon the 
ground. And when the people 
came into the forest, behold the 
honey dropped, but no man put 
his hand to his mouth. For 
the people feared the oath. But 
Jonathan had not heard when 
his father adjured the people : 
and he put forth the end of the 



rod, which he had in his hand, 
and dipt it in a honey comb: 
and he carried his hand to his 
mouth, and his eyes w^ere en- 
lightened. And one of the peo- 
ple answering, said : Thy father 
hath bound the people with an 
oath, saying; Cursed be the 
man that shall eat any food this 
day. (And -the people were 
faint.) And Jonathan said : 
My father hfith troubled the 
land: you have seen your- 
selves that my eyes are en- 
lightened, because I tasted a 
little of this honey: how much 
if more the people had eaten of 
the prey of their enemies, which 
they found? had there not 
been made a greater slaughter 
among the Philistines? And 
Saul consulted the Lord : Shall 
I pursue after the Philistines ? 
wilt thou deliver them into the 
hands of Israel? And he an- 
swered him not that day. And 
Saul said : Bring hither all the 
corners of the people : and 
know, and see by whom this 
sin hath happened to-day. As 
the Lord liveth who is the 
saviour of Israel, if it was done 
by Jonathan my son, he shall 
surely die. In this none of the 
people gain-said him. And 
Saul said to the Lord : O Lord 
God of Israel, give a sign, by 
which loe may know, what the 
meaning is, that thou answerest 
not thy servant to-daj" : If this 
iniquity be in me, or in my son 
Jonathan, give a proof: or if 
this iniquity be in thy people, 
give holiness. And Jonathan 
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people escaped. And Saul 
said : Cast lots between me, 
and Jonathan my son. And 
Jonathan was taken. And 
Saul said to Jonathan : Tell me 
what thou hast done. And 
Jonathan told him, and said : I 
did but taste a little honey 
with the end of the rod, which 
was in my hand, and behold I 
must die. And Saul said : 
May God do so and so to me, 
and add still more : for dying 
thou shalt die, O Jonathan. 
And the people said to Saul : 
Shall Jonathan then die, who 
hath wrought this great salva- 
tion in Israel ? this must not 
be: as the Lord liveth, there 
shall not one hair of his head 
fall to the ground, for he .hath 
wrought with God this day. 
So the people delivered Jona- 
than, that he should not die. 

(IV. Kings 2. A. M. 3108.) 
Eliseus went up to Bethel : and 
as he was going up hy the way, 
little boys came out of the cit}^ 
and mocked him, saying : Go 
up, thou bald-head; go up, thou 
bald-head. And looldng back, 
be saw them, and cursed them 
in the name of the Lord : and 
there came forth two bears out 
of the forest, and tore of them 
two and forty boys. 

Q. Have parents and. su- 
periors any duties tcwards 
those who are under their 
charge ? 

(Eph. 6.) Children, obey 
your parents in the Lord, for 
this is just. Honour thy father 
and thy mother which is the 



first commandment with a prom- 
ise ; that it may he ivell with 
thee^ and thou mayest be long- 
lived upon earth. And you, 
fathers, provoke not your chil- 
dren to anger ; but bring them 
up in the discipline and cor- 
rection of the Lord. Servants, 
be obedient to them that are 
your lords according to the 
flesh, with fear and trembling, 
in the simplicity of your heart, 
as to Christ : not serving to the 
eye, as it were pleasing men, 
but, as the servants of Christ, 
doing the will of God from the 
heart, with a good will serving, 
as to the Lord, and not to men. 
Knowing that whatsoever good 
thing any man shall do, the 
same shall he receive from the 
Lord, whether he be bond, or 
free. And you, masters, do 
the same things to them, for- 
bearing threatenings, knowing 
that the Lord both of them and 
you is in heaven ; and there is 
no respect of persons with him. 
(I. Tim. 6.) But if any man 
have not care of his own, and 
especially of those of his house, 
he hath denied the faith, and is 
worse than an infidel. 

Q. 'What is forbidden by the 
fourth Commandment ? 

See ''L of C," p. 90, No. 30. 

(Rom. 13.) Let every soul 
be subject to higher powers : 
for there is no power but from 
God: and those that are, are 
ordained of God. Therefore he 
that resisteth the power, re- 
sisteth the ordinance of God. 
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to themselves damnation. For 
princes are not a terror to the 
good work, but to the evil. 
Wilt thou then not be afraid 
of the power? Do that which 
is good: and thou shalt have 
praise from the same. For he 
is God's minister to thee, for 
good. But if thou do that 
which is evil, fear : for he 
beareth not the sword in vain. 
For he is God's minister : an 
avenger to execute wrath upon 
him that doth evil. Wherefore 
be subject of necessity, not only 
for wrath, but also for con- 
science'-sake. For therefore 
also you pay tribute. For 
thev are the ministers of God, 
serving unto this purpose. 
Render therefore to all men 
their dues. Tribute, to whom 
tribute is due : custom, to whom 
custom : fear, to whom fear : 
honour, to whom honour. 

Q. ^What is the fifth Com- 
mandment ? 

SeCL . of C," p. 112, No. 1. 

(I. John 3.) Whosoever 
hateth his brother is a mur- 
derer. And you know that no 
murderer hath eternal life abid- 
ing in himself. In this we have 
known the charity of God, be- 
cause he hath laid down his life 
for us : and we ought to lay 
down our lives for the breth- 
ren. He that hath the sub- 
stance of this world, and shall 
see his brother in need, and 
shall shut up his bowels from 
him : how doth the charity of 
God abide in him ? My little 
children, let us not love in 



word, nor in tongue, but in 
deed, and in truth. 

Q. "What are we commanded 
by the fifth Command- 
ment? 

See''L. ofC.,"p.31, No. 9. 

Q. "What is forbidden by the 

fifth Commandment ? 
See "L. of C," p. 32, No. 12; p. 54, No. 1. 

(Judg. 11. A.M. 2817.) The 
Spirit of the Lord came upon 
Jephte,and going round Galaad, 
and Manasses, and Maspha of 
Galaad, and passing over from 
thence to the children of Am- 
mon, he made a vow to the 
Lord, saying: If thou wilt de- 
liver the children of Ammon 
into my hands, whosoever shall 
first come forth out of the doors 
of my house, and shall meet me 
when I return in peace from the 
children of Ammon, the same 
will I offer a holocaust to the 
Lord. And Jephte passed over 
to the children of Ammon, to 
fight against them : and th.e 
Lord delivered them into his 
hands. And he smote ^/?6m from 
Aroer till you come to Mennith, 
twenty cities, and as far as 
Abel, which is set with vine- 
3'ards, with a very great 
slaughter : and the children 
of Ammon were humbled by 
the children of Israel. And 
when Jephte returned into 
Maspha to his house, his only 
daughter met him with tim- 
brels and with dances : for he 
had no other children. And 
when he saw her, he rent his 
garments, and said : Alas 1 my 
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me, and thou th3^self art de- 
ceived : for I have opened my 
mouth to the Lord, and I can 
do no other thing. And she 
answered him : My father, if 
thou hast opened thy mouth to 
the Lord, do unto me whatso- 
ever thou hast promised, since 
the victory hath been granted 
to thee, and revenge of thy 
enemies. And she said to her 
father: Grant me only this 
which I desire : Let me go, 
that I may go about the moun- 
tains for two months, and may 
bewail my virginity with my 
companions. And he answered 
her : Go. And he sent her away 
for two months. And when she 
was gone with her comrades 
and companions, she mourned 
her virginit}^ in the mountains. 
And the two months being ex- 
pired, she returned to her 
father, and he did to her as he 
had vowed, and she knew no 
man. 

(L Kings 18. A. M. 2942.) 
Now when David returned, 
after he slew the Philistine, 
the women came out of all the 
cities of Israel, singing and 
dancing, to meet king Saul, 
with timbrels of joy, and cor- 
nets. And the women sung as 
they played, and they said : 
Saul slew his thousands, and 
David his ten thousands. And 
Saul was exceeding angry, 
and this word was displeasing 
in his eyes, and he said : They 
have given David ten thou- 
sands, and to me they have 
given hut a thousand, what can 
he have more but the kingdom ? 



And Saul did not look on David 
with a good eye from that day 
and forward. And tbe day after 
the evil spirit from God came 
upon Saul, and he prophesied 
in the midst of his house. And 
David played with his hand as 
at other times. And Saul held 
a spear in his hand, and threw 
it, thinking to nail David to 
the wall : and David stept 
aside out of his presence twice. 
And Saul feared David, because 
the Lord was with him, and was 
departed from himself 

Q. "Wliat is the sixth Com- 
mandment ? 

(Gen. 20. A.M. 2107.) Abra- 
ham removed from thence to 
the south country, and dwelt 
between Cades and Sur, and 
sojourned in Gerara. And he 
said of Sara his wife : She is 
my sister. So Abimelech the 
king of Gerara sent, and took 
her. And God came to Abim- 
elech in a dream by night, 
and he said to him : Lo thou 
shalt die for the woman thou 
hast taken : for she hath a hus- 
band. Now therefore restore 
the man his wife, for he is a 
prophet : and he shall pray for 
thee, and tliou shalt live : but 
if thou wilt not restore her, 
know that thou shalt surely 
die, thou and all that are thine. 
And Abimelech forthwith ris- 
ing up in the night, called all 
his servants : and spoke all 
these words in their hearing, 
and all the men were exceed- 
ingly afraid. And Abimelech 
called also for Abraham, and 



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said to bim : What hast thou 
done to us? what have we 
offended thee in, that thou hast 
brought upon me and upon my 
kingdom a great sin ? Abraham 
answered : I tliought with my- 
self, saying : Perhaps there is 
not the fear of God in this 
place : and they will kill me for 
the sake of my wife : howbeit, 
otherwise also she is truly my 
sister, the daughter of my 
father, and not the daughter of 
my mother, and I took her to 
wife. And after God brought 
me out of my father's house, I 
said to her: Thou shalt do me 
this kindness : In every place, 
to which we shall come, thou 
shalt say that I am thy brother. 
And Abimelech took sheep and 
oxen, and servants and hand- 
maids, and gave to Abraham: 
and restored to him Sara, his 
wife. And when Abraham 
prayed, God healed Abimelech 
and his wife, and his hand- 
maids. 

Q. "What are "we commanded 
by the sixth Command- 
ment? 

See *'L. of C," p. 58, No. 13. 

(I. Cor. 3.) Know you not, 
that you are the temple of God, 
and that the Spirit of God 
dwelleth in you? But if any 
man violate the temple of God, 
him shall God destroy. For 
the temple of God is holy, 
which you are. 

(Apoc. 14.) I beheld, and lo 
a lamb stood upon Mount Sion, 
and with him an hundred forty- 
four thousand, having his name, 
and the name of his Father, 



written on their foreheads. 
And I heard a voice from heav- 
en, as the noise of many waters, 
and as the voice of great thun- 
der ; and the voice which I 
heard, was as the voice of harp- 
ers, harping on their harps. 
And they sung as it were a new 
canticle, before the throne, and 
before the four living creatures, 
and the ancients ; and no man 
could say the canticle, but 
those hundred fortv-four thou- 
sand, who were purchased from 
the earth. These are they who 
were not defiled with women : 
for they are virgins. These 
follow the Lamb whithersoever 
he goeth. These were pur- 
chased from among men, the 
first-fruits to God and to the 
Lamb : and in their mouth 
there was found no lie ; for they 
are without spot before the 
throne of God. 

(Dan. 6. A. M. 3398.) In the 
third year of the reign of Joakim 
king of Juda, Nabuchodonosor 
kingof Baby Ion came to Jerusa-. 
lem, and besieged it. And the 
Lord delivered into his hands 
Joakim the king of Juda, and 
part of the vessels of the house 
of God. 

(A. M. 3466.) And when 
Baltassar his son was king he 
made a great feast for a thou- 
sand of his nobles : and every 
one drank according to his age. 
Then were the golden and silver 
vessels brought, which he had 
brought away out of the tem- 
ple that was in Jerusalem : and 
the king and his nobles, his 
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in them. In the same hour 
there appeared fingers, as it 
were of the hand of a man, 
writing over-against the candle- 
stick upon the surface of the 
wall of the king's palace : and 
the king beheld the joints of 
the hand that wrote. Then 
was the king's countenance 
changed, and his thoughts 
troubled him : and the joints 
of his loins were loosed, and his 
knees struck one against the 
other. Then came in all the 
king's wise men, but they could 
neither read the writing, nor 
declare the interpretation to 
the king. Then Daniel was 
brought in before the king. 
And the king spoke, and said 
to him : Art thou Daniel of the 
children of the captivity of 
Juda, whom my father the king 
brought out of J udea ? I have 
heard of thee, that thou canst 
interpret obscure things, and 
resolve difficult things : now if 
thou art able to read the writ- 
ing, and to shew me the inter- 
pretation thereof, thou shalt be 
clothed with purple, and shalt 
have a chain of gold about thy 
neck, and shalt be the third 
prince in my kingdom. To 
which Daniel made answer, and 
said before the king : Thy re- 
wards be to thyself and the gifts 
of thy house give to another : 
but the writing I will read to 
thee, O king and shew thee the 
interpretation thereof. Thou 
hast lifted thyself up against 
the Lord of heaven: and the 
vessels of his house have been 
brought before thee : and thou, 



and thy nobles, and thy wives, 
and thy concubines have drunk 
wine in them : and thou hast 
praised the gods of silver, and 
of gold, and of brass, of iron, 
and of wood, and of stone, that 
neither see, nor hear, nor feel : 
but the God who hath thy 
breath in. his hand, and all thy 
wa3^s, thou hast not glorified. 
Wherefore he hath sent the 
part of the hand which hath 
written this that is set down. 
And this is the writing that is 
written : Mane, Thecel, Phares. 
And this is the interpretation 
of the word. Mane : God hath 
numbered thy kingdom, and 
hath finished it. Thecel : thou 
art weighed in the balance and 
art found wanting. Phares : 
thy kingdom is divided, and is 
given to the Medes and Per- 
sians. Then by the king's 
command Daniel was clothed 
with purple, and a chain of 
gold was 'put about his neck : 
and it was proclaimed of him 
that he had power as the third 
man in the kingdom. The same 
night Baltassar the Chaldean 
king was slain. 

Q. "What is forbidden by the 
sixth Comniandinent ? 

See"L. of C.,"p. 32, No. 10. 

(Judg. 16. A. M. 2885.) Af- 
ter this Samson loved a woman, 
who dwelt in the valley of 
Sorec, and she was called Dal- 
ila. And the princes of the 
Philistines came to her, and 
said : Deceive him, and learn 
of him wherein his great 
strength lieth, and how we may 



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be able to overcome him, to 
bind and afflict him : which if 
thou shalt do, we will give thee 
every one of us eleven hundred 
pieces of silver. And Dalila 
said to Samson : Tell me, I be- 
seech thee, wherein thy great- 
est strength lieth, and what it 
is wherewith if thou wert bound 
thou couldst not break loose. 
Then opening the truth of the 
thing, he said to her : The ra- 
zor hath never come upon my 
head, for I am a Nazarite, that 
is to say, consecrated to God 
from my mother's womb : If 
my head be shaven, my strength 
shall depart from me, and I 
shall become weak, and shall 
be like other men. Then seeing 
that he had discovered to her 
all his mind, she sent to the 
princes of the Philistines, say- 
ing : Come up this once more, 
for now he hath opened his 
heart to me. And they went 
up taking with them the money 
which they had promised. But 
she made him sleep upon her 
knees, and lay his head in her 
bosom. And she called a bar- 
ber, and shaved his seven locks, 
and began to drive him away, 
and thrust him from her : for 
immediately his strength de- 
parted from him. Then the 
Philistines seized upon him, 
and forthwith pulled out his 
eyes, and led him bound in 
chains to Gaza, and shutting 
him up in prison made him 
grind. And rejoicing in their 
feasts, when they had now 
taken their good cheer, they 
commanded that Samson should 



be called, and should play be- 
fore them. And being brought 
out of prison he played before 
them, and t\i^y made him stand 
between two pillars. And he 
said to the lad that guided his 
steps : Sutfer me to touch the 
pillars which support the whole 
house, and let me lean upon 
them, and rest a little. Now 
the house was full of men and 
women, and all the princes of 
the Philistines were there. 
Moreover about three thousand 
persons of both sexes from the 
roof and the higher part of the 
house, were beholding Samson's 
play. But he called upon the 
Lord, saying : O Lord God, re- 
member me, and restore to me 
now my former strength, my 
God, that I may revenge my- 
self on my enemies, and for the 
loss of my two eyes I may take 
one revenge. And laying hold 
on both the pillars on which 
the house rested, and holding 
the one with his right hand, 
and the other with his left, he 
said : Let me die with the Phil- 
istines. And when he had 
strongly shook the pillars, the 
house fell upon all the princes, 
and the rest of the rhultitude 
that was there : and he killed 
many more at his death, than 
he had killed before in his life. 
(Dan. 13. A. M.3398.) Now 
there was a man that dwelt in 
Bab3don, and his name was Jo- 
I akim : and he took a wife 
I whose name was Susanna, the 
i daughter of Helcias, a very 
I beautiful woman, and one that 
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being just, had instructed their 
daughter according to the 
law of Moses. Now Joakira 
was very rich, and had an or- 
chard near his house : and the 
Jews resorted to him, because 
he was the most honourable of 
them all. And there were two 
of the ancients of the people 
appointed judges that year, of 
whom the Lord said : Iniquity 
came out from Babylon from 
the ancient judges, that seemed 
to govern the people. These 
men frequented the house of 
Joakim, and all that had any 
matters of judgment came to 
them. And when the people 
departed away at noon, Susan- 
na went in, and walked in her 
husband's orchard. And the 
old men saw her going in every 
day, and walking. So they 
were both wounded with the 
love of her, yet they did not 
make known their grief one to 
the other. And one said to an- 
other : Let us now go home, 
for it is dinner time. So going 
out they departed one from an- 
other. And turning back again, 
they came both to the same 
place : and asking one another 
the cause, they acknowledged 
their love; and then they 
agreed upon a time, when they 
might find her alone. And it 
full out, as they watched a fit 
day, she went in on a time, as 
yesterday and the day before, 
with two maids only. Now 
when the maids were gone 
forth, the two elders arose, and 
ran to her, and said : Behold 
the doors of the orchard are 



shut, and nobody seeth us, and 
we are in love with thee : where- 
fore consent to us. But if thou 
wilt not, we will bear witness 
against thee, that a young man 
was with thee, and therefore 
thou didst send away thy maids 
from thee. Susanna sighed, 
and said : I am straitened on 
every side : for if I do this 
thing, it is death to me : and if 
I do it not, I shall not escape 
your hands. But it is better 
to fall into your hands without 
doing it, than to sin in the sight 
of the Lord. With that Su- 
sanna cried out with a loud 
voice : and the elders also cried 
out against her. So when the 
servants of the house heard the 
cry in the orchard, they rushed 
in by the back door to see what 
was the matter. And the el- 
ders said : As we walked in the 
orchard alone, this woman came 
in with two maids, and shut 
the doors of the orchard, and 
sent away the maids from her. 
Then a young man that was 
there hid came to her. And 
him indeed we could not take, 
because he was stronger than 
us, and opening the doors he 
leaped out: but having taken 
this woman, we asked who the 
young man was, but she would 
not tell us : of this thing we 
are witnesses. The multitude 
believed them as being the el- 
ders and the judges of the peo- 
ple, and they condemned her 
to death. Then Susanna cried 
out with a loud voice, to the 
Lord. And the Lord heard 
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led to be put to death, the Lord 
raised up the holy spirit of a 
young boy, whose name was 
Daniel. And he standing in 
the midst of them, said ; Are 
ye so foolish, ye children of Is- 
rael, that without examination 
or knowledge of the truth, you 
have condemned a daughter of 
Israel? Return to judgment, 
for thQy have borne false wit- 
ness aofainst her. And Daniel 
said to the people : Separate 
these two far from one another, 
and I will examine them. So 
when they were put asunder 
one from the other, he called 
one of them, and said to him : 
Now then, if thou sawest her, 
tell me under what tree thou 
sawest them conversing to- 
gether. He said : Under a 
mastic tree. And Daniel said : 
Well hast thou lied against thy 
own head : for behold the Angel 
of God having received the sen- 
tence of him, shall cut thee in 
two. And having put him 
aside, he commanded that the 
other should come, and he said 
to him : Now therefore tell me, 
under what tree didst thou 
take them conversing together. 
And he answered : Under a 
holm tree. And Daniel said to 
him : Well hast thou also lied 
against thy own head : for the 
Angel of the Lord waiteth with 
a sword to cut thee in two, and 
to destroy you. And they rose 
up against the two elders (for 



Daniel had convicted them of 
false witness by their own 
mouth) and they did to them 
as they had maliciously dealt 
against their neighbour, to ful- 
fil the law of Moses : and they 
put them to death, and innocent 
blood was saved in that day. 
And Daniel became great in 
the sight of the people from 
that da3', and thence forward. 

Q. Does the sixth Oominand- 
ment forbid the reading of 
bad and ininiodest books 
and ne^vspapers ? 

See " L. of C," p. 50, No. 8. 

(Eph. 5.) Be ye followers 
of God, as most dear children ; 
and walk in love, as Christ also 
hath loved us, and hath de- 
livered himself for us, an obla- 
tion and a sacrifice to God for 
an odor of sweetness. But 
fornication, and all uncleanness, 
or covetousness, let it not so 
much as be named among you, 
as becometh saints : or obscen- 
ity, or foolish talking, or scur- 
rility, which is to no purpose; 
but rather giving of thanks. 
For know you this and under- 
stand, that no fornicator, or un- 
clean, or covetous person (which 
is a serving of idols), hath in- 
heritance in the kingdom of 
Christ and of God. Let no 
man deceive you with vain 
words. For because of these 
things Cometh the anger of 
God upon the children of un- 
belief. 



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187 



FROM THE SEVENTH TO THE END OF THE TENTH COMMANDMENT. 



Q. What is the seventh Com- 
mandment ? 

(Tob.2. A.M. 3283.) Tobias 
fearing God more than the 
king, carried off the bodies of 
them that were slain, and hid 
them in his house, and at mid- 
night buried them. Now it 
happened one day, that being 
wearied with burying, he came 
to his house, and cast himself 
down by the wall and slept. 
And as he was sleeping a 
swallow's nest fell upon his 
eyes, and he was made blind. 
Now this trial the Lord there- 
fore permitted to happen to 
him, that an example might be 
given to posterity of his pa- 
tience. Now Anna, his wife, 
went daily to weaving work 
and she brought home what she 
could get for their living by the 
labor of her hands. Whereby 
it came to pass, that she re- 
ceived a }"oung kid, and brought 
it home : and when her hus- 
band heard it bleating, he said: 
Take heed, lest perhaps it be 
stolen, restore ye it to its own- 
ers, for it is not lawful for us 
either to eat or to touch any 
thing that cometh by theft. 

Q. What are -we commanded 
by the seventh Command- 
ment? 

(Gen. 23. A.M. 2148.) Abra- 
ham bowed down before the 
people of the land, and he 
spoke to Ephron, in the pres- 



ence of the people : I beseech 
thee to hear me : I will give 
money for the field : ta:ke it, and 
so I will bury my dead in it. 
And Ephron answered: My 
Lord, hear me. The ground 
which thou desirest, is worth 
four hundred sides of silver : 
this is the price between me and 
thee: but what is this? bury 
thy dead. And when Abraham 
had heard this, he weighed out 
the money that ^Ephron had 
asked, in the hearing of the 
children of Heth, four hundred 
sides of silver of common cur- 
rent money. And the field that 
before was Ephron's, wherein 
was the double cave, looking 
towards Mambre, both it and 
the cave, and all the trees there- 
of in all its limits round about, 
was made sure to Abraham for 
a possession, in the sight of the 
children of Heth, and of all 
that went in at the gate of his 
city. 

(Deut. 24.) When thou Shalt 
demand of thy neighbor any 
thing that he oweth thee, thou 
shalt not go into his house to 
take away a pledge : but thou 
shalt stand without, and he 
shall bring out to thee what he 
hath. But if he be poor, the 
pledge shall not lodge with thee 
that night, but thou shalt re- 
store it to him presently before 
the going down of the sun : that 
he may sleep in his own rai- 
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mayst have justice before the 
Lord thy God. Thou shalt not 
refuse the hire of the iieed^^, 
and the poor, whether he be 
thy brother, or a stranger that 
dwelleth witii tliee in the land, 
and is within thy gates : but 
thou shalt pay him the price of 
his labour the same day, before 
the going down of the sun, be- 
cause he is poor, and with it 
maintaineth his life : lest he 
cry against thee to the Lord, 
and it be refuted to thee for a 
sin. 

Q. "What is forbidden by the 
seventh Connnandnient ? 

(Ex. 12. A. M. 2513.) The 
children of Israel did as Moses 
had commanded : and they asked 
of the Egyptians vessels of sil- 
ver and gold, and very much 
raiment. And the Lord gave 
favor to the people in the sight 
of the Egyptians, so that they 
lent unto them : and they 
stripped the Egyptians. 

(Deut. 25.) Thou shalt not 
have divers weights in thy bag, 
a greater and a less: neither 
shall there be in thy house a 
greater bushel and a less. Thou 
shalt have a just and a true 
weight, and thy bushel shall be 
equal and true : that thou may- 
est live a long time upon the 
land which the Lord thy God 
shall give thee. For the Lord 
thy God abhorreth him that 
doth these things, and he hateth 
all injustice. 

(Jer. 32. A. M. 3415.) Jere- 
mias said : The word of the 
Lord came to me, saying : Be- 



hold, Hanameel the son of 
Sellum thy cousin shall come 
to thee, saying : Buy thee my 
field, which is in Anathoth, for 
it is thy right to buy it being 
next akin. And Hanameel my 
uncle's son came to me, accord- 
ing to the word of the Lord, to 
the entry of the prison, and 
said to me : Buy my field, 
which is in Anathoth in the 
land of Benjamin : for the right 
of inheritance is thine, and thou 
art next of kin to possess it. 
And I understood that this was 
the word of the Lord. And I 
bought the field of Hanameel 
my uncle's son, that is in 
Anathoth: and I weighed him 
the money, seven staters, and 
ten pieces of silver. And I 
wrote it in a book and sealed it, 
and took witnesses : and I 
weighed him the money in the 
balances. And I took the deed 
of the purchase that was sealed, 
and the stipulations, and the 
ratifications with the seals that 
were on the outside. And I 
gave the deed of the purchase 
to Baruch the son of Neri the 
son of Maasias in the sight of 
Hanameel my uncle's son, in 
the presence of the witnesses 
that subscribed the book of the 
purchase, and before all the 
Jews that sat in the court of 
the prison. And I charged 
Baruch before them, saying: 
Thus saith the Lord of hosts 
the God of Israel : Take these 
writings, this deed of the pur- 
chase that is sealed up, and 
this deed that is open : and put 
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they may continue many days. 
For thus saith the Lord of 
hosts the God of Israel : 
Houses, and fields, and vine- 
yards shall be possessed again 
in this land. 

Q. Are we bound to restore 
ill-gotten goods ? 

See"L. of C.,"p. 83, No. 12. 

Q. Are "we obliged to repair 
the damage we have un- 
justly caused ? 

(James 5.) Go to now, ye rich 
men, weep and howl in your 
miseries, which shall come upon 
you. Your riches are cor- 
rupted : and your garments are 
moth-eaten. Your gold and 
silver is cankered : and the rust 
of them shall be for a testimony 
against you, and shall eat your 
flesh like fire. You have stored 
up to yourself wrath against 
the last days. Behold the hire 
of the labourers, who have 
reaped down your fields, which 
by fraud has been kept back by 
you, crieth: and the cry of 
them hath entered into the ears 
of the Lord of sabaoth. You 
have feasted upon earth : and 
in riotousness you have nour- 
ished your hearts, in the day 
of slaughter. You have con- 
demned and put to death the 
just one, and he resisted you 
not. Be patient therefore, 
brethren, until the coming of 
the Lord. Behold, the hus- 
bandman waiteth for the pre- 
cious fruit of the earth : pa- 
tiently bearing till he receive 
the early and latter rain. Be 
you therefore also patient, and 



strengthen j^our hearts : for the 
coming of the Lord is at hand. 

Q. "What is the eighth Com- 
mandment ? 

(Deut 19.) If a lying wit- 
ness stand against a man, ac- 
cusing him of transgression, 
both of them, between whom 
the controversy is, shall stand 
before the Lord in the sight of 
the priests and the judges that 
shall be in those days. And 
when after most diligent inqui- 
sition, they shall find that the 
false witness hath told a lie 
against his brother : they shall 
render to him as he meant to 
do to his brother, and thou 
shalt take away the evil out of 
the midst of thee : that others 
hearing may fear, and may not 
dare to do such things. Thou 
shalt not pity him, but shalt 
require life for life, eye for eye, 
tooth for tooth, hand for hand, 
foot for foot. 

Q. "What are we commanded 
by the eighth Command- 
ment? 

See "L. of C," p. 110, No. 4. 

Q. "What is forbidden by the 
eighth Commandment ? 

See "L. of C," p. 33, No. 17. 

Q. "What must they do who 
have lied about their neigh- 
bour and seriously injured 
his character ? 

See ''L. of C," p. 112, No. 2; p. 120, No. 5. 

Q. What is the ninth Com- 
mandment ? 

(Ex. 20.) Thou shalt not 
covet thy neighbour's house: 
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wife, nor his servant, nor his 
handmaid, nor his ox, nor his 
ass, nor any thing that is his. 

Q. What are -we coramanded 
by the ninth Oommand- 
ment ? 

(I. Peter 2.) Dearly beloved, 
I beseech you as strangers and 
pilgrims, to refrain yourselves 
from carnal desires which war 
against the soul, having your 
conversation good among the 
gentiles : that whereas they 
speak against you as evil-doers, 
they may, by the good works, 
which they shall behold in you, 
glorify God in the day of visi- 
tation. 

Q. "What is forbidden by the 
ninth Commandraent ? 

(I. Cor. 5.) It is absolutely 
heard, that there is fornication 
among you, and such fornica- 
tion as the like is not among 
the heathens ; that one should 
have his father's wife. And you 
are puffed up ; and have not 
rather mourned, that he might 
be taken away from among you, 
that hath done this deed. I in- 
deed, absent in body, but pres- 
ent in spirit, have already 
judged, as though I were pres- 
ent, him that hath so done. In 
the name of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, you being gathered to- 
gether, and my spirit, with the 
power of our Lord Jesus, de- 
liver such a one to satan for 
the destruction of the flesh, 
that the spirit may be saved in 
the day of our Lord Jesus 
Christ. 



Q. Are impure thoughts and 
desires airways sins ? 

See "L. of C," p. 48, No. 3. 

Q. What is the tenth Com- 
mandment ? 

(I. Tim. 6.) Godliness with 
contentment is great gain. For 
we brought nothing into this 
world: and certainly we can 
carry nothing out. But having 
food, and wherewith to be cov- 
ered, with these we are content. 
For they that will become rich, 
fall into temptation, and into 
the snare of the devil, and into 
many unprofitable and hurtful 
desires, which drown men into 
destruction and perdition. For 
the desire of money is the root 
of all evils ; which some covet- 
ing have erred from the faith, 
and have entangled themselves 
in many sorrows. 

Q. What are -we commanded 
by the tenth Command- 
ment? 

(Num. 22-24. A. M. 2553.) 
Now Balac the son of Sephor, 
saw all that Israel had done to 
the Amorrhite, and that the 
Moabites were in great fear of 
him, and were not able to sus- 
tain his assault. He sent there- 
fore messengers to Balaam the 
son of Beor, a soothsayer, who 
dwelt b}^ the river of the land 
of the children of Ammon, to 
call him, and to say : Behold 
a people is come out of Eg3^pt, 
tliat hath covered the face of 
the earth, sitting over-against 
me. Come therefore, and curse 
this people, because it is might- 
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may beat them and drive tliem 
out of my land : for I know 
that he whom thou shalt bless is 
blessed, and he whom thou shalt 
curse is cursed. And the an- 
cients of Moab, and the elders 
of Madian, went with the price 
of divination in their hands. 
And when they were com.e to 
Balaam, and had told him all 
the words of Balac, he an- 
swered : Tarry here this night, 
and I will answer whatsoever 
the Lord shall say to me. And 
while they stayed with Balaam, 
God came and said to him : 
Thou shalt not go with them, 
nor shalt thou curse the people : 
because it is blessed. And he 
rose in the morning and said to 
the princes : Go into your 
country, because the Lord hath 
forbid me to come with you. 
Then he sent many more and 
more noble than he had sent 
before : saying : I am ready 
to honour thee, and will give 
thee whatsoever thou wilt : 
come and curse this people. 
Balaam answered : If Balac 
would give me his house full of 
silver and gold, I cannot alter 
the word of the Lord my God, 
to speak either more or less. I 
pray you to stay here this night 
also, that I may know what the 
Lord will answer me once more. 
God therefore came to Balaam 
in the night, and said to him : 
If these men be come to call 
thee, arise and go with them : 
j^et so, that thou do what I 
shall command thee. Balaam 
arose in the morning, and sad- 
dling his ass w^ent with them. 



And God was angry. And an 
angel of the Lord stood in the 
way against Balaam, who sat on 
the ass, and had two servants 
with him. The ass seeing the 
angel standing in the way, with 
a drawn sword, turned iierself 
out of the way, and went into 
the field. And when Balaam 
beat her, and had a mhid to 
bring her again to the way, the 
Lord opened the mouth of the 
ass, and she said : What have I 
done to thee ? Why strikest 
thou me, lo, now this third 
time ? Balaam answered : Be- 
cause thou hast deserved it, and 
hast served me ill : I w^ould I 
had a sw^ord that I might kill 
thee. Forthwith the Lord 
opened the eyes of Balaam, and 
he saw the angel standing in 
the w^ay with a drawn sword, 
I and he worshipped him falling 
I flat on the ground. Balaam 
! said : I have sinned, not know- 
ing that thou didst stand 
against me : and now if it dis- 
please thee that I go, I will re- 
turn. The angel said : Go 
with these men, and see thou 
speak no other thing than what 
I shall command thee. He went 
therefore with the princes. And 
when morning was come, they 
brought him to the high places 
of Baal, and he beheld the ut- 
termost part of the people. 
And taking up his parable, he 
said: Balac king of the Moa- 
bites hath brought me from 
Aram, from the mountains of 
the east : Come, said he, and 
curse Jacob : make haste and 
detest Israel. How shall I 



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curse him^ whom God hath not 
cursed ? By what means should 
I detest him, whom the Lord 
detesteth not ? I shall see him, 
but not now : I shall behold 
him, but not near. A star shall 
rise out of Jacob and a sceptre 
shall spring up from Israel : 
and shall strike the chiefs of 
Moab^ and shall waste all the 
children of Seth. And Balac 



said to Balaam: What is this 
that thou dost ? I sent for thee 
to curse my enemies : and thou 
contrary wise blessest them. 
And Balaam rose, and returned 
to his place : Balac also re- 
turned the way that he came. 

Q. "What is forbidden by the 
tenth Oommandment ? 

See"L. of C.,"p. 66, No. 30. 



LESSON THIRTY-FIFTH. 



ON THE FIRST AND SECOND COMMANDMENTS OF THE CHURCH. 



Q. "Which are the chief Com- 
mandments of the Church ? 

See "L.of C.,"p. 54, No. 5. 

(Heb. 13.) Obey year prel- 
ates, and be subject to them. 
For they watch as being to 
render an account of your souls ; 
that tbey may do this with }oy, 
and not with grief. For this is 
not expedient for you. 

Q. Is it a mortal sin not to 
hear Mass on a Sunday or a 
holy-day of obligation ? 

(Ex. 7-11. A.M. 2513.) The 
Lord said to Moses : Behold I 
have appointed thee the God of 
Pharao : and Aaron thy brother 
shall be thy prophet. Thou 
shalt speak to him all that I 
command thee; and he shall 
speak to Pharao, that he let 
the children of Israel go out of 
his land. And thou shalt say 
to him : The Lord God of the 
Hebrews sent me to thee, say- 
ing: Let my people go to sac- 
rifice to me in the desert : and 



hitherto thou wouldst not hear. 
Thus therefore saith the Lord : 
In this thou shalt know that I 
am the Lord : behold I will 
strike with the rod, that is in 
my hand, the water of the river, 
and it shall be turned into blood. 
But if thou wilt not let them 
go, behold I will strike all thy 
coasts with frogs. And the 
river shall bring forth an abun- 
dance of frogs : which shall 
come up, and enter into thy 
house, and thy bed-chamber, 
and npon thy bed, and into the 
houses of thy servants, and to 
thy people, and into thy ovens, 
and into the remains of thy 
meats ; and the frogs shall come 
in to thee, and to thy people, 
and to all thy servants. And 
the Lord said to Moses : Say to 
Aaron, Stretch forth thy rod, 
and strike the dust of the earth : 
and may there be sciniphs in 
all the land of Egypt. And 
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in the morning, and stand be- 
fore Pharao, and thou shalt say 
to him : Tlius saith the Lord 
the God of the Hebrews : Let 
my people go to sacrifice to 
me. But if thou wilt not let 
them go, behold I will send in 
upon thee, and upon thy serv- 
ants, and upon thy houses all 
kind of flies : and the houses of 
the Eg3^ptians shall be filled 
with flies of divers kinds, and 
the whole land wherein they 
shall be. And Pharao called 
Moses and Aaron, and said to 
them : Go, and sacrifice to your 
God in this land. And Moses 
said: It cannot be so: for we 
shall sacrifice the abominations 
of the Egyptians to the Lord 
our God : now if we kill those 
things which the Egyptians 
worship, in their presence, they 
will stone us. And the Lord 
said to Moses : Go in to Pharao, 
and speak to him : Thus saith 
the Lord God of the Hebrews : 
Let my people go to sacrifice 
to me. But if thou refuse, and 
withhold them still : behold my 
hand shall be upon thy fields : 
and a very grievous murrain 
upon thy horses, and asses, and 
camels, and oxen, and sheep. 
And the Lord said to Moses 
and Aaron : Take to you hand- 
fuls of ashes out of the chim- 
ney, and let Moses sprinkle it 
in the air in the presence of 
Pharao. And be there dust 
upon all the land of Egypt: for 
there shall be boils and swell- 
ing blains both in men and 
beasts, in the whole land of 
Egypt. And the Lord said to 

13 



Moses: Stretch forth thy hand 
towards heaven, that there may 
be hail in the whole land of 
Egypt, upon men, and upon 
beasts, and upon every herb of 
the field in the land of Egypt. 
And the Lord said to Moses: 
Stretch forth thy hand upon 
the land of Egypt unto the 
locust, that it come upon it, 
and devour every herb that is 
left after the hail. And the 
Lord hardened Pharao's heart, 
neither did he let the children 
of Israel go. And the liord 
said to Moses : Stretch out thy 
hand towards heaven : and may 
there be darkness upon the 
land of Egypt, so thick that it 
may be felt. And it came to 
pass at midnight, the Lord slew 
every first-born in the land of 
Egypt, from the first-born of 
Pharao, who sat on his throne, 
unto the first-born of the cap- 
tive woman that was in the 
prison, and all the first-born of 
cattle. And Pharao arose in 
the night, and all his servants, 
and all Egypt ; and there arose 
a great cry in Egypt : for there 
was not a house wherein there 
lay not one dead. And Pharao 
calling Moses and Aaron, in 
the night, said : Arise and go 
forth from among my people, 
you and the children of Israel : 
go, sacrifice to the Lord as you 
say. And the children of Israel 
set forward from Ramesse to 
Socoth, being about six hun- 
dred thousand men on foot, be- 
side children. 

Q. WTiy -were holy-days in- 
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(Lev. 23. A. M. 2514.) 
The Lord spoke to Moses, say- 
ing : Speak to the children of 
Israel, and thou shalt say to 
them : These are the feasts of 
the Lord, which you shall call 
holy. Six days shall ye do 
work : the seventh day, because 
it is the rest of the sabbath, 
shall be called holy. You shall 
do no work on that day : it is 
the sabbath of the Lord in all 
your habitations. These also 
are the holy-daj^s of the Lord, 
which you must celebrate in 
their seasons. The first month, 
the fourteenth day of the month 
at evening, is the phase of the 
Lord : and the fifteenth da}' of 
the same month is the solemnity 
of the unleavened bread of the 
.Lord. Seven days shall you 
eat unleavened bread. The first 
day shall be most solemn unto 
you, and holy : you shall do no 
servile work therein : but you 
shall oflTer sacrifice in fire to the 
Lord seven days. And the 
seventh day shall be more 
solemn, and more holy: and 
you shall do no servile work 
therein. And the Lord spoke 
to Moses, saying : Speak to the 
children of Israel, and thou 
shalt say to them : When you 
shall have entered into the land 
which I will give 3^ou, and shall 
reap your corn, you shall bring 
sheaves of ears, the first-fruits 
of 3"our harvest to tlie priest : 
you shall count therefore from 
the morrow after the sabbath, 
wherein you offered the sheaf 
of the first-fruits, seven full 
weeks. Even unto the morrow 



after the seventh week be ex- 
pired, that is to say, fifty days, 
and so you shall offer a new 
sacrifice to the Lord. And you 
shall call this day most solemn, 
and most holy. You shall do 
no servile work therein. It 
shall be an everlasting ordinance 
in all your dwellings and gener- 
ations. And the Lord spoke to 
Moses, saying : Say to the chil- 
dren of Israel : The seventh 
month, on the first day of the 
month, 3'ou shall keep a sab- 
bath, a memorial, with the 
sound of trumpets, and it shall 
be called holy. You shall do 
no servile work therein, and you 
shall offer a holocaust to the 
Lord. And the Lord spoke to 
Moses, saying : Upon the tenth 
day of this seventh month shall 
be the day of atonement, it 
shall be most solemn, and shall 
be called holy ; and you shall 
afflict your souls on that day, 
and shall off'er a holocaust to 
the Lord. You shall do no serv- 
ile work in the time of this 
day: because it is a day of 
propitiation, that the Lord your 
God may be merciful unto you. 
It is a sabbath of rest, and you 
shall afflict joxxv souls beginning 
on the ninth day of the month : 
from evening until evening 3'ou 
shall celebrate your sabbaths. 
And the Lord spoke to Moses, 
saying : Say to the children of 
Israel: From the fifteenth day 
of this same seventh month, 
shall be kept the feast of 
tabernacles seven da3's to the 
Lord. The first day shall be 
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holy: you shall do no servile 
work therein. And seven days 
you shall offer holocausts to the 
Lord. The eighth day also 
shall be most solemn and most 
holy, and you shall offer holo- 
causts to the Lord : for it is the 
day of assembly and congrega- 
tion : you shall do no servile 
work therein. These are the 
feasts of the Lord, which you 
shall call most solemn and 
most holy, and shall offer on 
them oblations to the Lord, 
holocausts and libations accord- 
ing to the rite of every day. 

Q. How should we keep the 
holy-days of obligation? 

(James 1.) Be ye doers of the 
word, and not hearers only, de- 
ceiving your own selves. For 
if a man be a hearer of the 
word, and not a doer, he shall 
be compared to a man behold- 
ing his own countenance in a 
glass. For he beheld himself, 
and went his way, and presently 
forgot what manner of man he 
was. But he that hath looked 
into the perfect law of liberty, 
and hath continued therein, not 
becoming a forgetful hearer, 
but a doer of the work ; this 
man shall be blessed iu his 
deed. And if any man think 
himself to be religious, not 
bridling his tongue, but deceiv- 
ing his own heart, this man's 
religion is vain. Religion clean 
and undefiled before God and 
the Father, is this : to visit the 
fatherless and widows in their 
tribulation : and to keep one's 
self unspotted from this world. 



Q. What do you mean by 
fast-days ? 

(Zach. 7. A. M. 3487.) It 
came to pass in the fourth year 
of king Darius, that the word 
of the Lord came to Zacharias, 
in the fourth day of the ninth 
month, which is Casleu. When 
Sarasar, and Rogommelech, and 
the men that were with him, 
sent to the house of God, to en- 
treat the face of the Lord : to 
speak to the priests of the 
house of the Lord of hosts, 
and to the prophets, saying: 
Must I weep in the fifth month, 
or must I sanctify myself as I 
have now done for many years ? 
And the word of the Lord of 
hosts came to me, saying : 
Speak to all the people of the 
land, and to the priests, saying: 
When you fasted, and mourned 
in the fifth and the seventh 
month for these seventy years : 
did you keep a fast unto me? 
And when you did eat and 
drink, did you not eat for your- 
selves, and drink for your- 
selves ? And the word of the 
Lord came to Zacharias, saying: 
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, 
saying : Judge 3'e true judg- 
ment, and shew ye mercy and 
compassion every man to his 
brother. And oppress not the 
widow, and the fatherless, and 
the stranger, and the poor : and 
let not a man devise evil in his 
heart against his brother. Thus 
saith the Lord of hosts : The 
fast of the fourth month, and 
the fast of the fifth, and the fast 
of the seventh, and the fast of 
the tenth shall be to the house 



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of Juda, joy, and gladness, and 
great solemnities : only love ye 
truth and peace. 

Q. What do you mean by- 
days of abstinence ? 

(1 Cor. 9.) Know you not 
that they that run in the race, 
all run indeed, but one re- 
ceiveth the prize ? So run that 
you may obtain. And every 
one that striveth for the mas- 
tery, refraineth himself from all 
things : and they indeed that 
they may receive a corruptible 
crown ; but we an incorruptible 
,one. I therefore so run, not as 
an uncertainty : I so fight, not 
as one beating the air : but I 
chastise my body, and bring it 
into subjection : lest perhaps, 
when I have preached to others, 
I myself should become a cast- 
away. 

Q. WTiy does the Church 
command us to abstain from 
flesh-meat on Fridays ? 

See ''L. of C," p. 16, No. 5. 

(Esdras 7-8. A. M. 3537.) 
I Esdras went up from Bab- 
ylon, and I was a ready scribe 
in the law of Moses, which the 
Lord God had given to Israel : 
and the king granted me all 
my requests, according to the 
band of the Lord his God upon 
him. For I Esdras had prepared 
my heart to seek the law of the 
Lord, and to do and to teach in 
Israel the commandments and 
judgment. And I proclaimed 
there a fast by the river Ahava, 
that we might afflict ourselves 
before the Lord our God, and 



might ask of him a right way 
for us and for our children, and 
for all our substance. For I 
was ashamed to ask the king 
for aid and for horsemen, to de- 
fend us from the enemy in the 
wav : because we had said to 
the king : The hand of our 
God is upon all them that seek 
him in goodness : and his power 
and strength, and wrath upon 
all them that forsake him. And 
we fasted, and besought our 
God for this : and it fell out 
prosperouslj'' unto us. 

(Dan. 1. A. M. 3398.) Nab- 
uchodonosor, king of Babylon 
came to Jerusalem, and besieged 
it. And the Lord delivered 
into his hands Joakim the king 
of Juda. And the king spoke 
to Asphenez the master of the 
servants, that he should bring 
in some of the children of Israel, 
children in whom there was no 
blemish, well favoured, and skil- 
ful in all wisdom, acute in 
knowledge, and instructed in 
science, and such as might 
stand in the king's palace, that 
he might teach them the learn- 
ing, and the tongue of the Chal- 
deans. And the king appoint- 
ed them a daily provision, of 
his own meat, and of the wine 
of which he drank himself, that 
being nourished three years, 
afterwards they might stand 
before the king. Now there 
were among them of the chil- 
dren of Juda, Daniel, Ananias, 
Misael, and Azarias. But Dan- 
iel purposed in his heart that 
he would not be defiled with the 
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which he drank : and he re- 
quested the master of the serv- 
ants that he might not be de- 
filed. And God gave to Dan- 
iel grace and mercy in the 
sight of the prince of the serv- 
ants. And the prince of the 
servants said to Daniel : I fear 
my lord the king, who hath ap- 
pointed you meat and drink : 
who if he should see your faces 
leaner than those of the other 
youths your equals, you shall 
endanger my head to the king. 
And Daniel said to Malasar, 
whom the prince of the serv- 
ants had appointed over Daniel, 
Ananias, Misael, and Azarias: 
Tr}', I beseech thee, thy serv- 
ants for ten days, and let pulse 
be given us to eat, and water 
to drink : and look upon our 
faces, and the faces of the chil- 
dren that eat of the king's 
meat : and as thou shalt see, 
deal with thy servants. And 
when he had heard these words, 
he tried them for ten days. 
And after ten days their faces 
appeared fairer and fatter than 
all the children that eat of the 
king's meat. So Malasar took 
their portions, and the wine 
that they should drink : and he 
gave them pulse. And to these 
children God gave knowledge, 
and understanding in ever}' 
book, and wisdom : but to Dan- 
iel the understanding also of 
all visions and dreams. And 
when the days were ended, after 
which the king had ordered 
they should be brought in : the 
prince of the servants brought 
them in before Nabuchodonosor. 



And when the king had spoken 
to them, there were not found 
among them all such as Daniel, 
Ananias, Misael, and Azarias : 
and they stood in the king's 
presence. And in all matters 
of wisdom and understanding, 
that the king inquired of them, 
he found them ten times better 
than all the diviners, and wise 
men, that were in all his king- 
dom. 

(Dan. 10. A. M. 3478.) In 
the third year of Cyrus king 
of the Persians, a word was re- 
vealed to Daniel surnamed Bal- 
tassar, and a true word, and 
great strength : and he under- 
stood the word : for there is 
need of understanding in a vis- 
ion. In those days I Daniel 
mourned the days of three 
weeks. I eat no desirable bread, 
and neither flesh, nor wine en- 
tered into my mouth, neither 
was I anointed with ointment : 
till the days of three weeks 
were accomplished. And in the 
four and twentieth day of the 
first month I was by the great 
river which is the Tigris. And 
I lifted up m}'' eyes, and I saw : 
and behold a man clothed in 
linen, and his loins were girded 
with the finest gold : and his 
body was like the chrysolite, 
and his face as the appearance 
of lightning, and his e^^es as a 
burning lamp : and his arms, 
and all downward even to the 
feet, like in appearance to glit- 
tering brass : and the voice of 
his word like the voice of a 
multitude. And I Daniel alone 
saw the vision : for the men 



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that were with me saw it not : 
but an exceeding great terror 
fell upon them, and they fled 
away, and bid themselves. And 
I being left alone saw this great 
vision : and there remained no 
strength in me, and the appear- 
ance of my countenance was 
changed in me, and I fainted 
away, and retained no strength. 
And I heard the voice of his 
words : and when I heard, I lay 
in a consternation upon my face, 
and my face was close to the 
ground. And behold a hand 
touched me, and lifted me up 
upon my knees, and upon the 
joints of my hands. And he 
said to me : Daniel, thou man 
of desires, understand the words 
that I speak to thee, and stand 
upright : for I am sent now to 
thee. And when he had said 
this word to me, I stood trem- 
bling. And he said to me : 
Fear not, Daniel : for from the 
first day that thou didst set thy 
heart to understand, to afflict 
th3'self in the sight of the God, 
thy words have been heard : and 
I am come for thy words. 

Q. Why does the Church 
command us to fast and ab- 
stain ? 

(II.Mach.7. A.M. 3837.) It 
came to pass, that seven breth- 
ren, together with their mother, 
were apprehended, and com- 
pelled by the king to eat swine's 
flesh against the law, for which 
end they were tormented with 
whips and scourges. But one 
of them, who was the eldest, 
said thus : What wouldst l^hou 



ask, or learn of us? we are 
ready to die rather than to 
transgress the laws of God, re- 
ceived from our fathers. Then 
the king being angry com- 
manded frying-pans, and brazen 
caldrons to be made hot : which 
forthwith being heated, he com- 
manded to cut out the tongue 
of him that had spoken first : 
and the skin of his head being 
drawn off*, to chop off also the 
extremities of his hands and 
feet, the rest of his brethren, 
and his mother, looking on. 
And when he was now maimed 
in all parts, he commanded him, 
being yet alive, to be brought 
to the fire, and to be fried in 
the frying-pan : and while he 
was suffering therein long tor- 
ments, the rest, together with 
the mother, exhorted one an- 
other to die manfully. So when 
the first was dead after this 
manner, they brought the next 
to make him a mocking-stock : 
and when the^^ had pulled ofi[* 
the skin of his head with the 
hair, they asked him if he would 
eat, before he were punished 
throughout the whole body in 
every limb. But he answered 
in his own language, and said : 
I will not do it. Wherefore he 
also in the next place, received 
the torments of the first : after 
him the third was made a mock- 
ing-stock, and when he was re- 
quired, he quickly put forth 
his tongue, and courageously^ 
stretched out his hands : and 
after he was thus dead, they 
torij]ented the fourth in the like 
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brought the fifth, they tor- 
mented him. After him the}^ 
brought the sixth, and he being 
ready to die, spoke thus : Do 
not think that thou shalt escape 
unpunished, for that thou hast 
attempted to fight against God. 
Now the mother was to be ad- 
mired above measure, and 
worthy to be remembered by 
good men, who beheld her seven 
sons slain in the space of one 
day, and bore it with a good 
courage, for the hope that she 
had in God : and she bravely 
exhorted every one of them in 
her own language, being filled 
with wisdom : and joining a 
man's heart to a woman's 
thouglit. Now Antiochus, 
thinking himself despised, and 
withal despising the voice of the 
upbraider, when the youngest 
was yet alive, did not only ex- 
hort him by words, but also as- 
sured him with an oath, that he 
would make him a rich and a 
happy man, and, if he would 
turn from the laws of his fathers, 
would take him for a friend, 
and furnish him with things 
necessary. But when the young 
man was not moved with these 
things, the king called the 



mother, and counselled her to 
deal with the young man to 
save his life. And when he had 
exhorted her with many words, 
she promised that she would 
counsel her son. So bending 
herself towards him, mocking 
the cruel tyrant, she said in her 
own language : I beseech thee^ 
my son, look upon heaven and 
earth, and all that is in them : 
and consider that God made 
them out of nothing, and man- 
kind also : so thou shalt not 
fear this tormentor, but being 
made a worthy partner with thy 
brethren, receive death, that in 
that mercy I may receive thee 
again with thy brethren. While 
she was 3^et speaking these 
words, the young man said : 
For whom do yon sta}^ ? I will 
not obey the commandment of 
the king, but the commandment 
of the law, which was given us 
by Moses. Then the king be- 
ing incensed with anger, raged 
against him more cruelly than 
all the rest, taking it grievously 
that he was mocked. So this 
man also died undefiled, wholly 
trusting in the Lord. And last 
of all after the sons the mother 
also was consumed. 



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LESSON THIRTY-SIXTH. 



ON THE THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH, AND SIXTH COMMANDMENTS OP 

THE CHURCH. 



Q. "What is meant by the 
command of confessing at 
least once a year ? 

See "L. of C," p. 67, No 31; p. 72, No. 7; 
p. 95, No. 43. 

Q. Should V7e confess only 
once a year ? 

(Eccltus. 5.) Say not: How 
miglity am I ? and who shall 
bring me under for my deeds? 
for God will surely take revenge. 
Say not : I have sinned, and 
what harm hath befallen me? 
for the most High is a patient 
re warder. Be not without fear 
about sin forgiven, and add not 
sin upon sin : and say not : 
The mercy of the Lord is great, 
he will have mercy on the mul- 
titude of my sins. For mercy 
and wrath quickly come from 
him, and his wrath looketh up- 
on sinners. Delay not to be 
converted to the Lord, and de- 
fer it not from day to day. For 
his wrath shall come on a sud- 
den, and in the time of venge- 
ance he will destroy thee. 

Q. Should children go to con- 
fession ? 

See"L. of C.,"p.81, No.6. 

Q. What sin does he commit 
"Who neglects to receive 
Communion during the Eas- 
ter time ? 

See "L. ofC," p. 71, No. 6. 

Q. "What is the Easter time ? 

(Jonas 3. A. M. 3197.) The 

word of the Lord came to Jonas 



the second time, saving : Arise, 
and go to Ninive the great 
city : and preach in it the 
preaching that I bid thee. And 
Jonas arose, and went to Nin- 
ive, according to the word of 
the Lord : now Ninive was a 
great city of three days' jour- 
ney. And Jonas began to en- 
ter into the city one day's jour- 
ney : and he cried, and said : 
Yet forty days, and Ninive 
shall be destro3^ed. And the 
men of Ninive believed in God: 
and they proclaimed a fast, and 
put on sackcloth from the 
greatest to the least. And the 
word came to the king of Nin- 
ive ; and he rose up out of his 
throne, and cast away his robe 
from him, and was clothed with 
sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 
And he caused it to be pro- 
claimed and published in Nin- 
ive from the mouth of the 
king and of his princes, saying : 
Let neither men nor beasts, 
oxen nor sheep, taste any 
thing : let them not feed, nor 
drink water. And let men and 
beasts be covered with sack- 
cloth, and cry to the Lord with 
all their strength, and let them 
turn every one from his evil 
way, and from the iniquity that 
is in their hands. Who can 
tell if God will turn, and for- 
give : and will turn away from 
his fierce anger, and we shall 
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their works, that they were 
turned from their evil way : 
and God had mercy with re- 
gard to the evil which he had 
said that he would do to them, 
and he did it not. 

Q. Are "we obliged to con- 
tribute to the support of our 
pastors ? 

See ''L. of C," p. 52, No. 15; p. 93, No. 37. 

(I. Cor. 9.) Know you not, 
that they who work in the holj^ 
place, eat the things that are 
of the holy place; and they 
that serve the altar, partake 
with the altar? So also the 
Lord ordained that they who 
preach the gospel, should live 
by the gospel. 

(Deut. 16.) Three times in a 
year shall all thy males appear 
before the Lord thy God in the 
place which he shall choose : in 
the feast of unleavened bread, 
in the feast of weeks, and in the 
feast of tabernacles. No one 
shall appear with his hands 
empty before the Lord : but 
every one shall offer according 
to what he hath, according to 
the blessing of the Lord his 
God, which he shall give him. 

(lY. Kings 12. A. M. 3148.) 
Joiada the high priest took a 
chest and bored a hole in the 
top, and set it by the altar at 
the right hand of them that 
came into the house of the 
Lord, and the priests that kept 
the doors put therein all the 
money that was brought to the 
temple of the Lord. And when 
they saw that there was very 
much money in the chest, the 



king's scribe and the high 
priest came up, and poured it 
out, and counted the money 
that was found in the house of 
the Lord : and they gave it 
out by number and measure 
into the hands of them that 
were over the builders of the 
house of the Lord : and they 
laid it out to the carpenters, 
and the masons that wrought 
in the house of the Lord, and 
made the repairs : and to them 
that cut stones, and to buy 
timber, and stones, to be hewed, 
that the repairs of the house 
of the Lord might be com- 
pletely finished, wheresoever 
there was need of expenses to 
uphold the house. For it was 
given to them that did the 
work, that the temple of the 
Lord might be repaired. 

Q. "What is the meaning of 
the commandment not to 
marry -within the fourth de- 
gree of kindred ? 

See *'L. of C," p. 21, No. 5; p. 43, No. 47. 

Q. "What is the meaning of 
the command not to marry 
privately ? 

(I. Cor. 4.) Let a man so 
account of us as of the minis- 
ters of Christ, and the dispens- 
ers of the mysteries of God. 

Q. "What is the meaning of 
the precept not to solem- 
nize marriage at forbidden 
times ? 

(Eccltus. 3.) All things have 
their season, and in their times 
all things pass under heaven. 
A time to be born and a time 
to die. A time to plant, and a 



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time to pluck up that which is 
planted. A time to kill, and a 
time to hoal. A time to de- 
stro}', and a time to build. A 
time to weep, and a time to 
laugh. A time to mourn, and 
a time to dance. A time to 
scatter stones, and a time to 
gather. A time to embrace, 
and a time to be far from em- 
braces. A time to get, and a 
time to lose. A time to keep, 



and a time to cast away. A 
time to rend, and a time to sew. 
A time to keep silence, and a 
time to speak. A time of love, 
and a time of hatred. A time 
of war, and a time of peace. 

Q. "What is the nuptial Mass ? 

SeCL. of C.,"p. 18, No. 3. 

Q. Should Catholics be mar- 
ried at a nuptial Mass ? 

See *' L. of C./' p. 89, No. 29. 



LESSON THIRTY-SEYENTH. 

ON THE LAST JUDGMENT AND THE RESURRECTION, HELL, PURGATORY, 

AND HEAVEN. 



Q. "When "will Christ judge us ? 
See "L. of C," p. 67, No. 31 ; p. 79, No. 2. 

(II. Peter 3.) Of this one 
thing be not ignorant, my be- 
loved, that one day with the 
Lord is as a thousand years, 
and a thousand years as one 
day. The Lord delay eth not 
his promise, as some imagine, 
but dealeth patiently for your 
sake, not willing that any 
should perish, but that all 
should return to penance. But 
the day of the Lord shall come 
as a thief, in which the heavens 
shall pass away with great vio- 
lence, and the elements shall be 
melted with heat, and the earth 
and the works which are in it, 
shall be burnt up. Seeing then 
that all these things are to be 
dissolved, what manner of peo- 
ple ought you to be in holy 
conversation and godliness ? 
Looking for and hasting unto 



the coming of the day of the 
Lord, by which the heavens 
being on fire shall be dissolved, 
and the elements shall melt 
with the burning heat? But 
we look for new heavens and a 
new earth according to his 
promises, in which justice 
dwelleth. Wherefore, dearl}'- 
beloved, seeing that you look 
for these things, be diligent 
that ye may be found undeliled 
and unspotted to him in peace. 
(I. Thess. 5.) Of the times 
and* moments, brethren, 3^ou 
need not, that we should write 
to you ; for j^ourselves know 
perfectly, that the day of the 
Lord shall so come, as a thief 
in the night. For when they 
shall say, peace and security ; 
then shall sudden destruction 
come upon them, as the pains 
upon her that is with child, and 
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brethren, are not in darkness, 
that that day should overtake 
you as a thiel'. For all you are 
the children of light, and chil- 
dren of the day : we are not of 
the night, nor of darkness. 
Therefore, let us not sleep, as 
others do: but let us watch, 
and be sober. 

(Eccltus. 41.) O death, how 
bitter is the remembrance of 
thee to a man that hath peace 
in his possessions. To a man 
that is at rest, and whose ways 
are prosperous in all things, 
and that is yet able to take 
meat ! death, thy sentence 
is welcome to the man that is 
in need, and to him whose 
strength faileth. Who is in a 
decrepit age, and that is in 
care about all things, and to 
the distrustful that looseth 
patience ! Fear not the sen- 
tence of death. Remember 
what things have been before 
thee, and what shall come after 
thee : this sentence is from the 
Lord upon all flesh. 

(Jer. 4. A. M. 3375.) I be- 
held the earth, and lo it was 
void, and nothing : and the 
heavens, and there was no light 
in them. I looked upon the 
mountains, and behold they 
trembled : and all the hills 
were troubled. I beheld, and 
lo there was no man : and all 
the birds of the air were gone. 
I looked, and behold Carmel 
was a wilderness : and all its 
cities were destroyed at the 
presence of the Lord, and at 
the presence of the wrath of 
his indignation. 



(Dan. 12.) At that time 
shall Michael rise up, the great 
prince, who standeth for the 
children of thy people : and a 
time shall come such as never 
was from the time that nations 
began even until that time. 
And at that time shall thy peo- 
ple be saved, every one that 
shall be found written in the 
book. And many of those that 
sleep in the dust of the earth, 
shall awake : some unto life 
everlasting, and others unto 
reproach, to see it always. But 
they that are learned shall 
shine as the brightness of the 
firmament: and they that in- 
struct many to justice, as stars 
for all eternity. 

Q. What is the judgment 
called which we have to 
undergo immediately after 
death ? 
See "L. of C," p. 95, Nos. 42,43. 

Q. What is the judgment 
called which all men have 
to undergo on the last day ? 
• See "L. of C," p. 94, No 41. 

(Joel 3.) I will gather to- 
gether all nations, and will 
bring them down into the 
valley of Josaphat : and I will 
plead with them there for my 
people, and for my inheritance 
Israel, whom they have scat- 
tered among the nations, and 
have parted my land. Break 
forth, and come, all ye nations, 
from round about, and gather 
yourselves together : there will 
the Lord cause all thy strong 
ones to fall down. Let them 
arise, and let the nations come 
up into the valley of Josaphat: 



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for there I will sit to judge all 
nations round about. 

Q. Why does Christ judge 
men immediately after 
death ? 

(Rom. 2.) Thou art inex- 
cusable, man, whosoever thou 
art that judgest. For wherein 
thou judgest another, thou con- 
demnest th^^self. For thou 
dost the same things which 
thou judgest. For we know 
that the judgment of God is, 
according to truth, against 
them that do such things. 
And thinkest thou this, man, 
that judgest them who do such 
things, and dost the same, that 
thou shalt escape the judgment 
of God ? Or despisest thou 
the riches of his goodness, and 
patience, and long-suffering ? 
Knowest thou not, that the 
benignity of God leadeth thee 
to penance ? But according to 
thy hardness and impenitent 
heart, thou treasurest up to 
thyself wrath, against the day 
of wrath, and revelation of the 
just judgment of God, who 
will render to every man ac- 
cording to his works. To them 
indeed, who according to pa- 
tience in good work, seek glory, 
and honour, and incorruption : 
eternal life: but to them that 
are contentious, and who obey 
not the truth, but give credit to 
iniquity ; wrath and indigna- 
tion, tribulation and anguish 
upon every soul. 

Q. "What are the re-wards or 
punishments appointed for 
men*s souls after the Par- 
ticular Judgment ? 



(II. Thess. 1.) We are 
bound to give thanks always 
to God for you, brethren, as it 
is fitting, because your faith 
groweth exceedingly, and the 
charity of every one of you 
towards each other, aboundeth : 
so that we ourselves also glory 
in you in the churches of God, 
for your patience and faith, and 
in all your persecutions and 
tribulations, which 3^ou endure. 
For an example of the just 
judgment of God, that you may 
be counted worthy of the king- 
dom of God, for which also 3"ou 
suffer. Seeing it is a just thing 
with God, to repay tribulation 
to them that trouble you : and 
to you who are troubled, rest 
with us when the Lord Jesus 
shall be revealed from heaven, 
with the angels of his power : 
in a flame of fire, yielding venge- 
ance to them who know not 
God, and who obey not the 
gospel of our Lord Jesus 
Christ. Who shall suffer eter- 
nal punishment in destruction, 
from the face of the Lord, and 
from the glory of his power : 
when he shall come to be glori- 
fied in his saints, and to be 
made wonderful in all them who 
have believed ; because our tes- 
timony was believed upon you 
in that day. 

(Gen. 15. A. M. 2092.) Now 
when these things were done, 
the word of the Lord came to 
Abram by a vision, saying: 
Fear not, Abram, I am thy 
protector, and thy reward ex- 
ceeding great. And Abram 
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give me ? And he said to him : 
I am the Lord who brought 
thee out from Ur of the Chal- 
dees, to give thee this land, and 
that thou mightest possess it. 
Abram believed God, and it 
was reputed to him unto jus- 
tice. And when the sun was 
set, there arose a dark mist, and 
there appeared a smoking fur- 
nace and a lamp of fire passing 
between those divisions. That 
day God made a covenant with 
Abram, saying : To thy seed 
will I give this land, from the 
river of Egypt even to the 
great river Euphrates. 

(Ex. 13. A. M. 2513.) The 
children of Israel set forward 
from Ramesse to Socoth, being 
about six hundred thousand 
men on foot, beside children. 
And marching from Socoth 
they encamped in Etham in 
the utmost coasts of the wilder- 
ness. And the Lord went be- 
fore them to shew the way by 
day in a pillar of a cloud, and 
by night in a pillar of fire: that 
he might be the guide of their 
journey at both times. There 
never failed the pillar of the 
cloud by day, nor the pillar of 
fire by night, before the people. 

Q. What is Hell? 

(Wisd. 5.) Then shall the 
just stand with great con- 
stancy against those that have 
aflflicted them, and taken away 
their labors. These seeing it, 
shall be troubled with terrible 
fear, and shall be amazed at the 
suddenness of their unexpected 
salvation. Saying within them- 



selves, repenting, and groaning 
for anguish of spirit : These are 
they, whom we had some time 
in derision, and for a parable 
of reproach. We fools esteemed 
their life madness, and their 
end without honor. Behold 
how they are numbered among 
the children of God, and 
their lot is among the saints. 
Therefore we have erred from 
the way of truth, and the light 
of justice hath not shined unto 
us, and the sun of understanding 
hath not risen upon us. We 
wearied ourselves in the way of 
iniquity and destruction, and 
have walked through hard 
ways, but the way of the Lord 
we have not known. What 
hath pride profited us ? or what 
advantage hath the boasting of 
riches brought us ? All those 
things are passed away like a 
shadow, and like a post that 
runneth on, and as a ship that 
passeth through the waves : 
whereof when it is gone by, the 
trace cannot be found, nor the 
path of its keel in the waters : 
or as when a bird flieth through 
the air, of the passage of which 
no mark can be found, but only 
tlie sound of the wings beating 
the light air, and parting it by 
the force of her flight ; she 
moved her wings, and hath 
flown through, and there is no 
mark found afterwards of her 
way : or as when an arrow is 
shot at a mark, the divided 
air presently cometh together 
again, so that the passage 
thereof is not known : so we 
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ceased to be : and have been 
able to shew no mark of 
virtue: but are consumed in 
our wickedness. Such things 
as these the sinners said in 
hell : for the hope of the wicked 
is as dust, which is blown away 
with the wind, and as a thin 
froth which is dispersed by the 
storm : and a smoke that is 
scattered abroad by the wind : 
and as the remembrance of a 
guest of one day that passeth 
b}^ But the just shall live for 
evermore : and their reward is 
with the Lord, and the care of 
them with the . most High. 
Therefore shall they receive a 
kingdom of glory, and a crown 
of beauty at the hand of the 
Lord. 

(Nahum 1.) The Lord is a 
jealous God, and a revenger : 
the Lord is a revenger, and 
hath wrath : the Lord taketh 
vengeance on his adversaries, 
and he is angrj^ with his ene- 
mies. The Lord is patient, and 
great in power, and will not 
cleanse and acquit the guilty. 
The Lord's ways are in a 
tempest, and a whirlwind, and 
clouds are the dust of his feet. 
He rebuketh the sea, and drieth 
it up : and bringeth all the 
rivers to be a desert. The 
mountains tremble at him, and 
the hills are made desolate : and 
the earth hath quaked at his 
presence, and the world, and all 
that dwell therein. Who can 
stand before the face of his in- 
dignation? and who shall resist 
in the fierceness of his anger ? 
his indignation is poured out 



like fire: and the rocks are 
melted by him. 

Q. "What is Purgatory ? 

See "L. of C," p. 68, No. 34. 

(I. Cor. 3.) Other foundation 
no man can lay, but that which 
is laid ; which is Christ Jesus. 
Now if an^^ man build upon this 
foundation, gold, silver, pre- 
cious stones, wood, hay, stub- 
ble : every man's work shall 
be manifest ; for the day of the 
Lord shall declare ^Y, because it 
I shall be revealed in fire ; and 
the fire shall try every man's 
work, of what sort it is. If 
an3' man's work abide, which 
he hath built thereupon, he 
shall receive a reward. If any 
man's work burn, he shall suffer 
loss; but he himself shall be 
saved, yet so as by fire. 

(Zach. 13.) There shall be 
in all the earth, siiith the Lord, 
two parts in it shall be scat- 
tered, and shall perish : but the 
third part shall be left therein. 
And I will bring the third part 
through the fire, and will refine 
them as silver is refined : and I 
will try them as gold is tried. 
The}" shall call on my name, 
and I will hear them. I will 
say : Thou art my people : and 
they shall say : The Lord is my 
God. 

Q. Can the faithful on earth 
help the souls in Purgatory ? 

(II. Mach. 12. A.M. 3841.) 
After Pentecost Judas marched 
against Gorgias the governor 
of Idumea. And when they 
had joined battle, it happened 



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that a few of the Jews were slain. 
And the day following Judas 
came with his company, to take 
away the bodies of them that 
were slain, and to bury them 
with their kinsmen, in the sep- 
ulchres of their fathers. And 
they found under the coats of 
the slain some of the donaries 
of the idols of Jamnia, which 
the law forbiddeth to the Jews : 
so that all plainly saw, that for 
this cause they were slain. 
Then they all blessed the just 
judgment of the Lord, who had 
discovered the things that were 
hidden. And so betaking them- 
selves to prayers, they besought 
him, that the sin which had 
been committed might be for- 
gotten. But the most valiant 
Judas exhorted the people to 
keep themselves from sin, for- 
asmuch as they saw before their 
eyes what had happened,. be- 
cause of the sins of those that 
were slain. And making a 
gathering, he sent twelve thou- 
sand drachms of silver to Jeru- 
salem for sacrifice to be offered 
for the sins of the dead, think- 
ing well and religiously con- 
cerning the resurrection. (For 
if he had not hoped that they 
that were slain should rise 
again, it would have seemed 
superfluous and vain to pray 
for the dead,) and because he 
considered tbat the}^ who had 
fallen asleep with godliness, 
had great grace laid up for 
them. It is therefore a holy 
and wholesome thought to pray 
for the dead, that they may be 
loosed from sins. 



Q. If every one is judged im- 
mediately after death, what 
need is there of a general 
judgment ? 

See "L. of C," p. 75, No. 13; p. 82, No. 8; 

p. 97, No. 44. 

Q. Will our bodies share in 
the reward or piinishment 
of our souls ? 

See " L. of C," p. 77, Nos. 19-21. 

(I. Thess. 4.) We will not 
have 3^ou ignorant, brethren, 
concerning them that are 
asleep, that you be not sorrow- 
ful, even as others who have no 
hope. For if we believe that 
Jesus died, and rose again ; 
even so them who have slept 
through Jesus, will God bring 
with him. For this we say 
unto you in the word of the 
Lord, that we who are alive, 
who remain unto the coming of 
the Lord, shall not prevent 
them who have slept. For the 
Lord himself shall come down 
from heaven with command- 
ment, and with the voice of an 
Archangel, and with the trum- 
pet of God : and the dead who 
are in Christ, shall rise first. 
Then we who are alive, who are 
left, shall be taken up together 
with tliem in the clouds to meet 
Christ, into the air, and so shall 
we be always with the Lord. 
Wherefore, comfort ye one an- 
other with these words. 

(Ezek. 37. A. M. 3417.) 
The hand of the Lord was upon 
me, and brought me forth in 
the spirit of the Lord : and set 
me down in the midst of a plain 
that was full of bones. And 
he led mc about through them 



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on every side : now they were 
very many upon the face of the 
plain, and they were exceeding 
dry. And he said to me : Son 
of man, dost thou think these 
bones shall live ? And I an- 
swered : O Lord God, thou 
knowest. And he said to me : 
Prophesy concerning these 
bones ; and say to them : Ye 
dry bones, hear the word of the 
Lord. Thus saith the Lord 
God to these bones : Behold, I 
will send spirit into you, and 
you shall live. And I will lay 
sinews upon you, and will cause 
flesh to grow over you, and will 
cover you with skin: and I 
will give you spirit and you 
shall live, and 3^ou shall know 
that I am the Lord. And I 
prophesied as he had com- 
manded me : and as I prophesied 
there was a noise, and behold a 
commotion : and the bones 
came together, each one to its 
joint. And I saw, and behold 
the sinews, and the flesh came 
up upon them : and the skin 
was stretched out over them, 
but there was no spirit in them. 
And he said tome: Prophesy 
to the spirit, prophesy, O son 
of man, and say to the spirit : 
Thus saith the Lord God: 
Come, spirit, from the four 
winds, and blow upon these 
slain, and let them live again. 
And I prophesied as he had 
commanded me : and the spirit 
came into them, and they lived : 
and they stood up upon their 
feet, an exceeding great army. 
And he said to me: Son of 
man : All these bones are the 



house of Israel : they say : Our 
bones are dried up, and our 
hope is lost, and we are cut off. 
Therefore prophesy, and say 
to them : Thus saith the Lord 
God : Behold I will open your 
graves, and will bring you out 
of your sepulchres, O my peo- 
ple: and will bring you into 
the land of Israel. 

Q. In what state "will the 
bodies of the just rise ? 

See"L. ofC.,"p. 90, No.31. 

(Gen. 15. A. M. 2092.) 
Now when these things were 
done, the word of the Lord 
came to Abram by a vision, 
saying : Fear not, Abram, I ^n\ 
thy protector, and thy reward 
exceeding great. And Abram 
said : Lord God what wilt 
thou give me ? And he brought 
him forth abroad, and said to 
him : Look up to heaven and 
number the stars, if thou canst. 
And he said to him : So shall 
thy seed be. 

Q. "Will the bodies of the 
damned also rise ? 

(I. Cor. 15.) Now if Christ 
be preached, that he arose again 
from the dead, how do some 
among you say, that there is 
no resurrection of the dead? 
But if there be no resurrection 
of the dead, then Christ is not 
risen again. And if Christ be 
not risen again, then is our 
preaching vain, and your faith 
is also vain. Yea, and we are 
found false witnesses of God : 
because we have given testi- 
mony against God, that he hath 
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hath not raised up, if the dead 
rise not again. For if the dead 
rise not again, neither is Christ 
risen again. And if Christ be 
not risen again, your faith is 
vain, for you are yet in your 
sins. Then they also that are 
fallen asleep in Christ, are 
perished. If in this life only 
we have hope in Christ, we are 
of all men most miserable. But 
now Christ is risen from the 
dead, the first-fruits of them 
that sleep : for by a man came 
death, and by a man the resur- 
rection of the dead. And as in 
Adam all die, so also in Christ 
all shall be made alive. But 
every one in his own order : 
the first-fruits Christ, then they 
that are of Christ, who have 
believed in his coming. After- 
wards the end, when he shall 
have delivered up the kingdom 
to God and the Father, when 
he shall have brought to nought 
all principality, and power, and 
virtue. But some man will 
say : How do the dead rise 
again? or with what manner 
of body shall they come? 
Senseless man, that which thou 
sowest is not quickened, except 
it die first. And that which 
thou sowest, thou sowest not 
the body that shall be ; but 
bare grain, as of wheat, or of 
some of the rest. But God 
giveth it a body as he will : 
and to every seed its proper 
body. All flesh is not the same 
flesh : but one is the flesh of 
men, another of beasts, another 
of birds, another of fishes. And 
there are bodies celestial, and 

14 



bodies terrestrial: but, one is 
the glory of the celestial, and 
another of the terrestrial. One 
is the glory of the sun, another 
the glory of the moon, and 
another the glory of the stars. 
For star differeth from star in 
glory. So also is the resurrec- 
tion of the dead. It is sown in 
corruption, it shall rise in in- 
corruption. It is sown in dis- 
honour, it shall rise in glory. 
It is sown in weakness, it shall 
rise in power. It is sown a 
natural body, it shall rise a 
spiritual body. Behold, I tell 
you a mystery. We shall all 
indeed rise again : but we shall 
not all be changed. In a mo- 
ment, in the twinkling of an 
eye, at the last trumpet : for 
the trumpet shall sound, and 
the dead shall rise again incor- 
ruptible : and we shall be 
changed. For this corruptible 
must put on incorruption ; and 
this mortal must put on im- 
mortality. And when this mor- 
tal hath put on immortality, 
then shall come to pass the 
sa3ing that is written : Death 
is swallowed up in victory, 
deaths where is thy victory ? 
deaths where is thy sting? Now 
the sting of death is sin : and 
the strength of sin is the law. 
But thanks be to God, who 
hath given us the victory 
through our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Q. What is Heaven ? 

See^L. of C.,"p. 34, No. 20. 

(II. Tim. 4.) I am even now 
ready to be sacrificed : and the 
time of my dissolution is at 



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hand. I have fought a good 
light, I have finished my 
course, I have kept the faith. 
As to the rest, there is laid up 
for me a crown of justice, which 
the Lord the just judge will 
render to me in that day : and 
not only to me, but to them 
also that love his coming. 
Make haste to come to me 
quickl3\ 

(Apoc. 7. A. D. 64.) After 
tins 1 saw a great multitude, 
which no man could number, of 
all nations, and tribes, and peo- 
ples, and tongues, standing be- 
fore the throne, and in sight of 
the Lamb, clothed with white 
robes, and palms in their hands : 
and thev cried with a loud 
voice, saying : Salvation to our 
God, who sitteth upon the 
throne, and to the Lamb. And 
all the Angels stood round 
about the throne, and the an- 
cients, and the four living crea- 
tures; and they fell down be- 
fore the throne upon their faces, 
and adored God, saying; Amen. 
Benediction, and glory, and wis- 
dom, and thanksgiving, honour, 
and power, and strength to our 
God for ever and ever. Amen. 
And one of the ancients an- 
swered, and said to me : These 
that are clothed in white robes, 
who are they ? and whence came 
they ? And I said to him : My 
Lord, thou knowest. And he 
said to me : These are they who 
are come out of great tribula- 
tion, and have washed their 
robos, and have made them 
white in the blood of the Lamb. 
Therefore they are before the 



throne of God, and they serve 
him day and night in his tem- 
ple : and he, that sitteth on the 
throne, shall dwell over them. 
T\iQy shall no more hunger nor 
thirst, neither shall the sun fall 
on them, nor any heat. For 
the Lamb, which is in the midst 
of the throne, shall rule them, 
and shall lead them to the foun- 
tains of the waters of life, and 
God shall wipe away all tears 
from their eyes. 

(Apoc. 21.) I saw a new 
heaven and a new earth. For 
the first heaven and the first 
earth was gone, and the sea is 
now no more. And I John 
saw the holy city, the new Jer- 
usalem, coming down out of 
heaven from God, prepared as 
a bride adorned for her hus- 
band. And the building of the 
wall thereof was of jasper-stone : 
but the city itself pure gold, 
like to clear glass. And the 
foundations of the wall of the 
city were adorned with all man- 
ner of precious stones. And the 
twelve gates are twelve pearls, 
one to each : and every several 
gate was of one several pearl. 
And the street of the city was 
pure gold, as it were trans- 
parent glass. And I saw no 
temple therein. For the Lord 
God Almighty is the temple 
thereof, and the Lamb. And 
the city hath no need of the 
sun, nor of the moon, to shine 
in it. For the glory of God 
hath enlightened it, and the 
Lamb is the lamp thereof. And 
I heard a great voice from the 
throne, saying : Behold the tab- 



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ernacle of God with men, and 
he will dwell with them. And 
they shall be his people ; and 
God himself with them shall be 
their God. And God shall wipe 
away all tears from their eyes : 
and death shall be no more, nor 
mourning, nor crying, nor sor- 
row shall be any more, for the 
former things are passed away. 
And he that sat on the throne, 
said : Behold, I make all things 
new. And he said to me : Write, 
for these words are most faith- 
ful and true. And he said to 
me : It is done. I am Alpha 
and Omega ; the beginning and 
the end. To him that thirst- 
eth, I will give of the fountain 
of the water of life, freely. He 
that shall overcome shall pos- 
sess these things, and I will be 
his God ; and he shall be my 
son. 

(Isa. 65.) There shall not 
enter into it any thing defiled, 
or that worketh abomination or 
maketh a lie, but they that are 
written in the book of life of 
the Lamb. For behold I create 
new heavens, and a new earth : 
and the former things shall not 
be in remembrance, and they 
shall not come upon the heart. 
But 3'ou shall be glad and re- 
joice for ever in these things, 
which I create : for behold I 
create Jerusalem a rejoicing, 
and the people thereof joy. And 



I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and 
joy in niy people, and the voice 
of weeping shall no more be 
heard in her, nor the voice of 
crying. 

Q. "What words should we 
bear always in raind ? 

See"L. of C.,"p.50, No. 11. 

(Ex. 15. A.M. 2513.) Moses 
brought Israel from the Red 
Sea, and they went forth into 
the wilderness of Sur : and they 
marched three days through 
the wilderness, and found no 
water. And they came into 
Mara, and they could not drink 
the waters of Mara, because 
they were bitter: whereupon 
he gave a name also agreeable 
to the place, calling it Mara, 
that is, bitterness. And the peo- 
ple murmured against Moses, 
saying : What shall we drink ? 
But he cried to the Lord, and 
he shewed him a tree, which 
when he had cast into the wa- 
ters, they were turned into 
sweetness. There he appoint- 
ed him ordinances, and judg- 
ments, and there he proved him, 
saying : If thou wilt hear the 
voice of the Lord thy God, and 
do what is right before him, 
and obey his commandments, 
and keep all his precepts, none 
of the evils that I laid upon 
Egypt, will I bring upon thee : 
fori am the Lord thy healer. 



PREFACE. 



(Luke 1.) Forasmuch as 
miny have taken in hand to set 
forth in order a narration of the 
things that have been accom- 
plislied among us ; According 
as they have delivered them 
untp us, who from the begin- 
ning, were eyewitnesses and 
ministers of the word. It 
seemed good to me also, hav- 
ing diligently attained to all 
things from the beginning, to 
write to thee in order, most ex- 
cellent Theophilus, Tiiat thou 
may est know the verity of those 
words in which thou hast been 
instructed. 

(John 1.) In the beginning 
was the Word, and the Word 
was with God, and the Word 
was God. The same was in 
the beginning with God. All 
things were made b}^ him : and 
without him was made nothing 
that was made. In him was 
life, and the life was the light 
of men. And the light shineth 
in darkness, and the darkness 



did not comprehend it. There 
was a man sent from God, 
whose name was John. This 
man came for a witness, to give 
testimony of the light, that all 
men might believe through him. 
He was not the light, but was 
to' give testimou}'' of the light. 
That was the true light, which 
enlighteneth every man that 
Cometh into this world. He 
was in the world, and the 
world was made by him, and 
the world knew him not. He 
came unto his own, and his own 
received him not. But as many 
as received him, he gave them 
power to be made the sous of 
God, to them that believe in his 
name. Who are born, not of 
blood, nor of the will of the 
flesh, nor of the will of man, 
but of God. And the Word 
was made flesh, and dwelt 
among us, (and we saw his 
glory, the glory as it were of 
the only-begotten of the 
Father) full of grace and truth. 



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/ 



LIFE OF CHEIST. 



PART I, 



CHRIST'S BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD. 



1. (Oct., 15 ms. B. B. C. 

Luke 1.) There was in the 
days of Herod, the king of 
Judea, a certain priest named 
Zachary, of the course of Abia ; 
and his wife was of the daugh- 
ters of Aaron, and her name 
Elizabeth. And they were 
both just before God, walking 
in all the commandment's and 
justifications of the Lord with- 
out blame. And they had no 
son, for that Elizabeth w^as 
barren, and they both were well 
advanced in years. And it came 
to pass, when he executed the 
priestly function in the order 
of his course before God, Ac- 
cording to the custom of the 
l)riestly office, it was his lot to 
otfer incense, going into the 
temple of the Lord. And all 
the multitude of the people was 
praying without, at the hour 
of incense. And there appeared 
to him an angel of the Lord, 
standing on the right side of 
the altar of incense. And 



Zachary seeing him, was trou- 
bled, and fear fell upon him. 
But the angel said to him: 
Fear not, Zachary, for thy 
prayer is heard ; and thy wife 
Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, 
and thou shalt call his name 
John : And thou shalt have 
joy and gladness, and many 
shall rejoice in his nativity. 

2. For he sh/ill be great be- 
fore the Lord ; and shall drink 
no wine nor strong drink : and 
he shall be filled with the Holy 
Ghost, even from his mother's 
womb. And he shall convert 
many of the children of Israel 
to the Lord their God. And 
he shall go before him in the 
spirit and power of Elias; that 
he may turn the hearts of the 
fathers unto the children, and 
the incredulous to the wisdom 
of the just, to prepare unto the 
Lord a perfect people. 

3. And Zachary said to the 
Angel : Whereb}^ shall I know 
this? for I am an old man, and 

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LIFE OF CHRIST. 



my wife is advanced in years. 
And tlie angel answering, said 
to bim : I am Gabriel, wbo 
stand before God ; and am sent 
to spealv to tbee, and to bring 
thee these good tidings. And 
behold, thou shalt be dumb, 
and shalt not be able to speak 
until the day wherein these 
things shall come to pass, be- 
cause thou hast not believed 
my words, which shall be ful- 
filled in their time. And the 
people was waiting for Zachary ; 
and they wondered that he tar- 
ried so long in the temple. And 
when he came out, he could not 
speak to them : and they un- 
derstood that he had seen a 
vision in the temple. And he 
made signs to them, and re- 
mained dumb. And it came to 
pass, after the days of his office 
were accomplished, he departed 
to his own house. And after 
those days, Elizabeth his wife 
conceived, and hid herself five 
months, saying: Thus hath 
the Lord dealt with me in the 
days wherein he hath had re- 
gard to take away my reproach 
among men. 

4. (Mar., 9 ms. B. B. C.) 
And in the sixth month, the 
angel Gabriel was sent from 
God into a city of Galilee, called 
Nazareth, To a virgin espoused 
to a man whose name was 
Joseph, of the house of David ; 
and the virgin's name was 
Mary. And the Angel being 
come in, said unto her : Hail, 
full of grace, the Lord is with 
thee: blessed art thou among 
women. Who having heard. 



was troubled at his saying, and 
thought with herself what man- 
ner of salutation this should be. 
And the Angel said to her: 
Fear not Mary, for thou hast 
found grace with God. Behold 
thou shalt conceive in th}^ 
womb, and shalt bring forth a 
son ; and thou shalt call his 
name Jesus. He shall be great, 
and shall be called the son of 
the most High ; and the Lord 
God shall give unto him the 
throne of David his father; and 
he shall reign in the house of 
Jacob for ever. And of his 
kingdom there shall be no end. 
And Mar}^ said to the Angel : 
How shall this be done, because 
I know not man ? And the 
Angel answering, said to her : 
the Holy Ghost shall come up- 
on thee, and the power of the 
most High shall overshadow 
thee : And therefore also the 
Holy which shall be born of 
thee shall be called the Son of 
God. And behold thy cousin 
Elizabeth, she also hath con- 
ceived a son in her old age ; and 
this is the sixth month with 
her that is called barren : Be- 
cause no word shall be impos- 
sible with God. And Mar}' 
said : Behold the handmaid of 
the Lord ; be it done to me ac- 
cording to thy word. And the 
Angel departed from her. 

5. And Mary rising up in 
those da^'S, went into the hill 
country with haste into a city 
of Juda. And she entered in- 
to the house of Zachary, and 
saluted Elizabeth. And it 
came to pass, that when Eliza- 



LIFE OF CHRIST, 



9 



betli heard the salutation of 
Mary, the infant leaped in her 
womb. And Elizabeth was 
filled with the Holy Ghost: 
And she cried out with a loud 
voice, and said : Blessed art 
thou among women, and bless- 
ed is the fruit of thy womb. 
And whence is this to me, that 
the mother of my Lord should 
come to me ? For behold as 
soon as the voice of thy salu- 
tation sounded in my ears, the 
infant in my womb leaped for 
joy< And blessed art thou that 
hast believed, because those 
things shall be accomplished 
that were spoken to thee by 
the Lord. And Mary said : 
My soul doth magnify the 
Lord. And my spirit hath 
rejoiced in God my Saviour. 
Because he hath regarded the 
humility of his handmaid; for 
behold from henceforth all 
generations shall call me bless- 
ed. Because he that is mighty, 
hath done great things to me ; 
and holy is his name. And his 
mercy is from generation unto 
generations, to them that fear 
him. He hath shewed might 
in his arm : he hath scattered 
the proud in the conceit of their 
heart. He hath put down the 
mighty from their seat, and 
hath exalted the humble. He 
hath filled the hungry with good 
things ; and the rich he hath 
sent empty away. He hath re- 
ceived Israel his servant, being 
mindful of his mercy. As he 
spoke to our fathers, to Abra- 
ham and to his seed for ever. 
And Mary abode with her 



about three months ; and she 
returned to her own house. 

6. (June, 6 ms. B. B. C.) 
Now Elizabeth's full time of be- 
ing delivered was come, and 
she brought fortli a son. And 
her neighbors and kinsfolks 
heard that the Lord had shewed 
his great mere}'' towards her, 
and they congratulated with her. 

7. Now it came to pass, 
that on the eighth day they 
came to circumcise the child, 
and they called him by his 
father's name Zachary. And 
his mother answering, said : 
Not so; but he shall be called 
John. And they said to her: 
There is none of thy kindred 
that is called by this name. 
And the}^ made signs to his 
father, how he would have him 
called. And demanding a writ- 
ing-table, he wrote, saying : 
John is his name. And they 
all wondered. And immedi- 
ately his mouth was opened, 
and his tongue loosed^ and he 
spoke, blessing God. And fear 
came upon all their neighbors ; 
and all these things were noised 
abroad over all the hill-country 
of Judea. And all they that had 
heard them laid them up in their 
heart, sa3dng : What an one, 
think ye, shall this child be ? 
For the hand of the Lord was 
with him. And Zachary his 
father was filled with the Holy 
Ghost ; and he prophesied, say- 
ing : Blessed be the Lord God 
of Israel ; because he hath visit- 
ed and wrought theredemptio.n 
of his people : And hath raised 
up an horn of salvation to us, 



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LIFE OF CHRIST. 



in the house of David his serv- 
ant. As he spoke by the mouth 
of his holy prophets, who are 
from the beginning. Salvation 
from our enemies, and from the 
hand of all that hate us. To 
perform mercy to our fathers, 
and to remember his holy testa- 
ment. The oath, which he 
swore to Abraham our father, 
that he would grant to us. 
That being delivered from the 
hand of our enemies, we may 
serve him without fear. In 
holiness and justice before him, 
all our daj^s. And thou, child, 
shall be called the prophet of 
the Highest : for thou shalt go 
before the face of the Lord to 
prepare his wa3"s. To give 
knowledge of salvation to his 
people, unto the remission of 
their sins. Through the bowels 
of the mercy of our God, in 
which the Orient from on high 
hath visited us. To enlighten 
them that sit in darkness, and 
in the shadow of death : to di- 
rect our feet into the way of 
peace. And the child grew, and 
was strengthened in spirit ; and 
was in the deserts until the day 
of his manifestation to Israel. 

8. (Mat. 1.) Now the 
generation of Christ was in 
this wise. When as his mother 
Mary was espoused to Joseph, 
before they came together, she 
was found with child, of the 
Holy Ghost. Whereupon Jo- 
seph her husband, being a just 
man, and not willing publicly 
to expose her, was minded to 
put her awa}' privately. But 
while he thought on these 



things, behold the Angel of the 
Lord appeared to him in his 
sleep, saying: Joseph, son of 
David, fear not to take unto 
thee Mary thy wife, for 'that 
which is conceived in her, is of 
the Holy Ghost. And she shall 
bring forth a son : and thou 
shalt call his name Jesus. For 
he shall save his people from 
their sins. Now all this was 
done that it might be fulfilled 
which the Lord spoke by the 
prophet, saying : Behold a vir- 
gin shall be ivith child ^ and 
bring forth a son, and they 
shall call his name Emmanuel, 
which being interpreted is, God 
with us. And Joseph rising up 
from sleep, did as the Angel of 
the Lord had commanded him, 
and took unto him his wife. 
And he knew her not till she 
brought forth her first-born son : 
and he called his name Jesus. 

9. (Luke 2.) Audit came to 
pass, that in those daj^s there 
went out a decree from Cesar 
Augustus, that the whole world 
should be enrolled. This en- 
rolling was first made by Cyre- 
nins, the governor of Syria. 
And all went to be enrolled, 
every one into his own city. 
And Joseph also went up from 
Galilee, out of the cit}" of Naz- 
areth into Judea, to the city of 
David, which is called Bethle- 
hem, because he was of the 
house and family of David, to 
be enrolled with Mary his es- 
poused wife, who was with 
child. And it came to pass, 
that when they were there, her 
days were accomplished, that 



LIFE OF CHRIST, 



11 



she should be delivered. And 
she brought forth her first-born 
son, and wrapped him up in 
swaddling clothes, and laid him 
in a manger ; because there was 
no room for them in the inn. 
And there were in the same 
country shepherds watching, 
and keeping the night-watches 
over their flock. And behold 
an angel of the Lord stood by 
them, and the brightness of God 
shone round about them ; and 
they feared with a great fear. 
And the Angel said to them : 
Fear, not; for, behold, I bring 
you good tidings of great joy, 
that shall be to all the people : 
For, this day, is born to 3^ou a 
Saviour, who is Christ the 
Lord, in the city of David. 
And this shall be a sign unto 
you. You shall find the infant 
wrapped in swaddling-clothes, 
and laid in a manger. And 
suddenly there was with the 
ani2fel a multitude of the 
heavenly army, praising God, 
and saying : Glory to God in 
the highest ; and on earth peace 
to men of good-will. And it 
came to pass, after the angels 
departed from them into heaven, 
the shepherds said one to an- 
other : Let us go over to Beth- 
lehem, and let us see this word 
that is come to pass, which the 
Lord hath shewed to us. And 
they came with haste ; and they 
found Mary and Joseph, and 
the infant Ijing in the manger. 
And seeing, they understood of 
the word that had been spoken 
to them concerning this child. 
And all that heard, wondered ; 



and at those things that were 
told them by the shepherds. 
But Mary kept all these words, 
pondering them in her heart. 
And the shepherds returned, 
glorifying and praising God, 
for all the things they had 
heard and seen, as it was told 
unto them. 

10. (1 Jan., A. D. 1.) And 
after eight days were accom- 
plished, that the child should 
be circumcised, his name was 
called Jesus, which was called 
by the angel, before he was con- 
ceived in the womb. And after 
the days of her purification ac- 
cording to the law of Moses, 
were accomplished, they carried 
him to Jerusalem, to present 
him to the Lord. As it is 
written in the law of the Lord : 
Every tnale opening the womb 
shall he called holy to the Lord, 
And to offer a sacrifice, accord- 
ing as it is written in the law 
of the Lord, a pair of turtle 
doves, or two young pigeons. 

11. And behold there was a 
man in Jerusalem named Sime- 
on, and this man was just and 
devout, waiting for the conso- 
lation of Israel ; and the Holy 
Ghost was in him. And he 
had received an answer from 
the Holy Ghost, that he should 
not see death, before he had 
seen the Christ of the Lord. 
And he came by the Spirit into 
the temple. And when his 
parents brought in the child 
Jesus, to do for him according 
to the custom of the law. He 
also took him into his arms, 
and blessed God, and said : 



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LIFE OF CHRIST. 



Now thou dost dismiss thy 
servant, Lord, according to 
thy word in peace ; Because 
my eyes have seen thy salva- 
tion, Which thou hast prepared 
before the face of all peoples : 
A light to the revelation of tiie 
Gentiles, and the glory of thy 
people Israel. And his father 
and mother were wondering at 
those things which were spoken 
concerning him. And Simeon 
blessed them, and said to Mary 
his mother : Behold this child 
is set for the fall, and for the 
resurrection of manj^ in Israel, 
and for a sign which shall be 
contradicted ; And thj" own 
soul a sword shall pierce, that, 
out of many hearts, thoughts 
may be revealed. And ttiere 
was one Anna, a prophetess, 
the daughter of Phanuel, of the 
tribe of Aser ; she was far ad- 
vanced in 3^ears, and had lived 
with her husband seven years 
from her virginit}^ And she 
was a widow until fourscore and 
four years ; who departed not 
from the temple, by fastings 
and prayers serving night and 
day. Now she, at the same 
hour, coming in, confessed to 
the Lord ; and spoke of him to 
all that looked for the redemp- 
tion of Israel. And after they 
had performed all things ac- 
cording to the law of the Lord, 
they returned into Galilee, to 
their city Nazareth. 

12. (6 Jan., A. D. 2. Mat. 
2.) When Jesus therefore was 
born in Bethlehem of Juda, in 
the da^^s of king Herod, behold, 
there came wise men from the 



East to Jerusalem. Saying, 
Where is he that is born King 
of the Jews ? For we have 
seen his star in the East, and 
are come to adore him. And 
king Herod hearing this, was 
troubled, and all Jerusalem with 
him. And assembling together 
all the chief priests and the 
Scribes of the people, he in- 
quired of them where Christ 
should be born. But they said 
to him : In Bethlehem of Juda. 
For so it is written by the 
prophet : And thou Bethlehem 
the land of Juda art not the 
least among the princes of 
Juda: for out of thee shall 
come forth the captain that 
shall rule my people Israel, 
Then Herod, privatel}' calling 
the wise men, learned diligently 
of them the time of the star 
which appeared to them ; And 
sending them into Bethlehem, 
said : Go and diligently inquire 
after the child, and when you 
have found him, bring me word 
again, that I also may come 
and adore him. Who having 
heard the king, went their way ; 
and behold the star which the}'^ 
had seen in the East, went be- 
fore them, until it came and 
stood over where the child was. 
And seeing the star they re- 
joiced with exceeding great joy. 
And entering into the house, 
they found the child with Mary 
his mother, and falling down 
they adored him ; and opening 
their treasures, they offered 
him gifts ; gold, frankincense, 
and myrrh. And having re- 
ceived an answer in sleep that 



LIFE OF CHRIST, 



13 



they should not return to Her- 
od, they went back another way 
into their country. 

13. Now after they were 
departed, behold an Angel of 
the Lord appeared in sleep to 
Joseph, saying : Arise, and 
take the child and his mother, 
and fly into Egypt : and be 
there until I shall tell thee. 
For it will come to pass that 
Herod will seek the child to de- 
stroy him. Who arose, and 
took the child and his mother 
by night, and retired into 
Egypt : and he was there until 
the death of Herod : That it 
might be fulfilled which the 
Lord spoke by the prophet, 
saying : Out of Egypt have I 
called my son. 

14. Then Herod perceiving 
that he was deluded by the 
wise men, was exceeding angry; 
and sending killed all the men- 
children that were in Bethle- 
hem, and in all the borders 
thereof, from two years old and 
under, according to the time 
which he had diligently inquired 
of the wise men. Then was 
fulfilled that which was spoken 
by Jeremias the prophet, say- 
ing : A voice in Rama was 
heard^ lamentation and great 
mourning ; Rachel bewailing 
her children^ and ivould not be 
comforted^ because they are not. 

15. (A. D. 1 or 8.) But 
when Herod was dead, behold 
an Angel of the Lord appeared 
in sleep to Joseph in Egypt, 
Saying : Arise, and take the 
child and his mother, and go 
into the land of Israel. For 



they are dead that sought the 
life of the child. Who arose, 
and took the child and his 
mother, and came into the land 
of Israel. But hearing that 
Archelaus reigned in Judea in 
the room of Herod his father, 
he was afraid to go thither : 
and being warned in sleep re- 
tired into the quarters of Gali- 
lee. And coming he dwelt in a 
city called Nazareth : that it 
might be fulfilled which was 
said by the propliets : That he 
shall be called a Nazarite. And 
the child grew, and waxed 
strong, full of wisdom ; and 
the grace of God was in him. 

16. (Luke 2. A. D. 12.) 
Now his parents went every 
year to Jerusalem, at the 
solemn day of the pasch. And 
when he was twelve 3'ears old, 
they going up into Jerusalem, 
according to the custom of 
the feast, and having fulfilled 
the days, when they returned, 
the child Jesus remained in 
Jerusalem ; and his parents 
knew it not. And thinking 
that he was in the company, 
they came a day's journey, and 
sought him among their kins- 
folks and acquaintance. And 
not finding him, they returned 
into Jerusalem, seeking him. 
And it came to pass, that, after 
three daj^s, they found him in 
the temple, sitting in the midst 
of the doctors, hearing them, 
and asking them questions. 
And all that heard him were as- 
tonished at his wisdom and his 
answers. And seeing him^ they 
wondered. And his mother said 



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to him : Son, why hast thou 
done so to us ? behold thy 
father and I have sought thee 
sorrowing. And he said to 
them : How is it that you 
sought me ? did you not know, 
that I must be about my father's 
business ? And they understood 



not the word that he had spoke 
unto them. And he went down 
with them, and came to Naz- 
areth, and was subject to them. 
And his mother kept all these 
words in her heart. And Jesus 
advanced in wisdom, and age, 
and grace with God and men. 



PART II, 



CHRIST'S PUBLIC LIFE, 



CHAPTER L 

PEEPARATION. 



1. (Luke 3. A. D. 30.) Now 
in the fifteenth year of the reign 
of Tiberias Cesar, Pontius Pil- 
ate being governor of Judea, 
and Herod being tetrarch of 
Galilee, and Philip his brother 
tetrarch of Iturea, and the 
country of Trachonitis, and 
L3^sanias tetrarch of Abilina ; 
Under the high-priests Annas 
and Caiphas ; the word of the 
Lord was made unto John, the 
son of Zachary, in the desert. 
And he came into all the country 
about the Jordan, preaching the 
baptism of penance for the re- 
mission of sins ; And saying : 
Do penance : for the kingdom 
of heaven is at hand. As it is 
written in Isaias the prophet : 
Behold I send my angel before 
thy face^ who shall prepare the 
way before thee, A voice of 
one crying in the desert : Pre- 
pare ye the way of the Lord, 



make straight his paths. Every 
valley shall be filled ; and every 
mountain and hill shall be 
brought low ; and the crooked 
shall be made straight ; and the 
rough ways plain; And all 
flesh shall see the salvation of 
God. 

(Mat. 3.) And the same 
John had his garment of camels' 
hair, and a leathern girdle about 
his loins : and his meat was lo- 
custs and wild honey. Then 
went out to him Jerusalem and 
all Judea, and all the country 
about Jordan : And were bap- 
tized by him in the Jordan, con- 
fessing their sins. 

2. And seeing man}'' of the 
Pharisees and Sadducees com- 
ing to his baptism, he said to* 
them : Ye brood of vipers, who 
hath shewed you to flee from 
the wrath to come ? Bring forth 
therefore fruit worthy of pen- 

(15) 



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LIFE OF CHRIST. 



aiice. And think not to say 
within 3^ourselves, We have 
Abraham for our father. For I 
tell you that God is able of these 
stones to raise up children to 
Abraham. For now the axe is 
laid to the root of the trees. 
Every tree therefore tliat doth 
not yield good fruit, shall be cut 
down, and cast into the fire. 

(Luke 3.) And the people 
asked him, saying : What then 
shall we do ? And he answer- 
ing, said to them : he that hath 
two coats, let him give to him 
that hath none ; and he that 
hath meat, let him do in like 
manner. And the publicans 
also came to be baptized, and 
said to him : Master, what shall 
we do? But he said to them : 
Do nothing more than that 
which is appointed you. And 
the soldiers also asked him, 
saying : and what shall we do ? 
And he said to them ; Do vio- 
lence to no man ; neither ca- 
lumniate any man ; and be con- 
tent with your pay. 

3. Now as the people was 
of opinion, and all were think- 
ing in their hearts of John, that 
perhaps he might be the Christ ; 
John answered, sa^^ing unto all : 
I indeed baptize 3^ou with 
water ; but there shall come one 
mightier than I, the latchet of 
whose shoes I am not worthy 
to loose : he shall baptize 3'ou 
with the Holy Ghost, and with 
fire : Whose fan is in his hand, 
and he will purge his floor, and 
will gather the wheat into his 
barn ; but the chaff he will burn 
with unquenchable fire. And 



many other things exhorting, 
did he preach to the people. 

4. (Mat. 3.) Then cometh 
Jesus from Galilee to the Jor- 
dan, unto John, to be baptized 
by him. But John stnyed him, 
saying : I ought to be baptized 
by thee, and comest thou to 
me? And Jesus answering, 
said to him : Suffer it to be so 
now. For so it becometh us to 
fulfill all justice. Then he suf- 
fered him. And Jesus being 
baptized, forthwith came out of 
the w^ater : and lo, the heavens 
were opened to him : and he 
saw the Spirit of God descend- 
ing as a dove, and coming upon 
him. And behold a voice from 
heaven, saying : This is my be- 
loved Son, in whom I am well 
pleased. 

5. (Mat. 4. A. D. 30.) Then 
Jesus was led by the spirit in- 
to the desert, to be tempted by 
the devil. And when he had 
fasted forty days and forty 
nights, afterwards he was 
hungry. And the tempter com- 
ing said to him : If thou be the 
Son of God, command that these 
stones be made bread. Who 
answered and said : It is writ- 
ten. Not in bread alone doth 
man live^ hut in every word 
that proceedeth from the mouth 
of God, Then the devil took 
him up into the holy city, and 
set him upon the pinnacle of 
the temple. And said to him : 
If thou be the Son of God, cast 
th3'self down, for it is written : 
That he hath given his Angels 
charge over thee, and in their 
hands shall they bear thee up, 



LIFE OF CHRIST. 



17 



lest perhaps thou dash thy foot 
against a stone, Jesus said to 
him : It is written again : 
Thou shalt not tempt the Lord 
thy God, Again the devil took 
him up into a very high moun- 
tain, and shewed him all the 
kingdoms of the world, and the 
glory of them, And said to 
him : All these will I give 
thee, if falling down thou wilt 
adore me. Tiien Jesus saith to 
him : Be gone, satan : for it is 
written, The Lord thy God 
shalt thou adore, and him only 
shalt thou serve. Then the devil 
left him ; and behold Angels 
came and ministered to him. 

6. (John 1.) Now this is 
the testimony of John, when 
the Jews sent from Jerusalem 
priests and levites to him, to 
ask him : Who art thou ? And 
he confessed, and did not den}" : 
and he confessed : I am not the 
Christ. And then they asked 
him : What then ? Art thou 



Elias ? And he said : I am not. 
Art thou the prophet? And he 
answered : No. They said there- 
fore unto him : Who art thou, 
that we may give an answer to 
them that sent us? What say- 
est thou of thyself? He said : 
/ am the voice of one crying in 
the wilderness, make straight 
the ivay of the Lord, as said the 
prophet Isaias. And the}^ that 
w^ere sent, were of the Pharisees. 
And they asked him, and said 
to him : W^hy then dost thou 
baptize, if thou be not Christ, 
nor Elias, nor the prophet? 
John answered them, sa3'ing : 
I baptize with w^ater ; but there 
hath stood one in the midst of 
3'ou, whom you know not. The 
same is he that shall come after 
me, who is preferred before me : 
the latchet of whose shoe I am 
not worthy to loose. These 
things were done in Bethania, 
beyond the Jordan, where John 
was baptizing. 



CHAPTER IL 



FIRST MANIFESTATIONS. 



1. (Johnl. A.D. 30.) The 
next day, John saw Jesus com- 
ing to him, and he saith : Be- 
hold the Lamb of God, behold 
him who taketh away the sin 
of the world. This is he, of 
whom I said : After me there 
Cometh a man, who is preferred 
before me : because he was be- 



fore me. And I knew him not, 
but that he may be made mani- 
fest in Israel, therefore am I 
come baptizing with water. 
And John gave testimony say- 
ing : I saw the spirit coming 
down, as a dove from heaven, 
and he remained upon him. 
And I knew him not ; but he 



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LIFE OF CHRIST. 



who sent me to baptize with 
water, said to me: He upon 
whom thou shalt see the spirit 
descending, and remaining upon 
him, he it is that baptizeth with 
the Holy Ghost. And I saw, 
and I gave testimony, that this 
is the Son of God. 

2. The next day again John 
stood, and two of his disciples. 
And beholding. Jesus walking, 
he saitli : Behold the Lamb of 
God. And the two disciples 
heard him speak and they fol- 
lowed Jesus. And Jesus turn- 
ing and seeing them following 
him, saith to them : What seek 
you ? Who said to him, Rabbi, 
(which is to say, being inter- 
preted. Master,) where dwellest 
thou? He saith to them : Come 
and see. They came, and saw 
wliere he abode, and they staid 
with him that day : now it was 
about the tenth hour. And 
Andrew, the brother of Simon 
Peter, was one of the two who 
had heard of John, and fol- 
lowed him. He findeth first his 
brother Simon, and saith to 
him : We have found the Mes- 
sias, which being interpreted, 
the Christ. And he brought 
him to Jesus. And Jesus look- 
ing upon him, said : Thou art 
Simon the son of Jona : Thou 
shalt be called Cephas, which is 
iutrepreted Peter. On the fol- 
lowing day, he would go forth 
into Galilee, and he findeth 
Philip. And Jesus saith unto 
him : Follow me. Now Philip 
was of Bethsaida, the city of 
Andrew and Peter. Philip 
findeth Nathanael, and saith to 



; him : We have found him of 
I whom Moses in the law, and 
the prophets did write, Jesus 
the Son of Joseph of Nazareth. 
And Nathanael said to him : 
Can any thing of good come 
from Nazareth? Philip saith 
to him ; Come and see. Jesus 
saw Nathanael coming to him : 
and he saith of him : Behold 
an Israelite indeed, in whom 
there is no guile. Nathanael 
saith to him : Whence know- 
est thou me? Jesus answered, - 
and said to him : Before that 
Philip called thee, when thou 
wast under the fig-tree, I saw 
thee. Nathanael answered him 
and said: Rabbi, thou art 
the Son of God, thou art the 
king of Israel. Jesus answered, 
and said to him : Because I 
said unto thee, I saw thee un- 
der the fig-tree, thou believest : 
greater things than these shalt 
thou see. And he saith to him : 
Amen, amen I say to you, you 
shall seethe heaven opened, and 
the angels of God ascending 
and descending upon the son of 
man. 

3. (John 2. A. D. 30.) Now' 
the third day, there was a 
marriage in Cana of Galilee : 
and the mother of Jesus was 
there. And Jesus also was in- 
vited, and his disciples, to the 
marriage. And the wine fail- 
ing, the mother of Jesus saith 
to him : The}'' have no wine. 
And Jesus saith to her : Wom- 
an, what is it to me and to 
thee ? my hour is not yet come. 
His mother saith to the wait- 
ers : Whatsoever he shall say 



LIFE OF CHRIST. 



19 



to you, do ye. Now there were 
set there six water-pots of stone, 
according to the manner of the 
purifying of the Jews, contain- 
ing two or three measures a 
piece. Jesus saith to them : 
Fill the water-pots with water. 
'And they filled them up to the 
brim. And Jesus saith to them : 
Draw out now, and carry to the 
chief steward of the feast. And 
they carried it. And when the 
chief steward had tasted the 
water made wine, and knew not 
whence it was, but the waiters 
knew who had drawn the water; 
the chief steward calleth the 



bridegroom, And saith to him : 
Every man at first setteth forth 
good wine, and when men have 
well drunk, then that which is 
worse. But thou hast kept the 
good wine until now. This be- 
ginning of miracles did Jesus 
in Cana of Galilee ; and mani- 
fested his glory, and his dis- 
ciples believed in him. After 
this he went down to Caphar- 
naum, he and his mother, and 
his brethren, and his disciples: 
and they remained there not 
many days. And the pasch of 
the Jews was at hand and Jesus 
went up to Jerusalem. 



CHAPTER III. 



JESUS AND JOHN. 



1. (A. D. 81.) Now Jesus 
found in the temple them that 
sold oxen and sheep and doves, 
and the changers of money sit- 
ting. And when he had made, 
as it were, a scourge of little 
cords, he drove them all out of 
the temple, the sheep also and 
the oxen, and the money of the 
changers he poured out, and the 
tables he overthrew. And to 
them that sold doves he said : 
Take these things hence, and 
make not the house of m}^ 
Father a house of traffic. And 
his disciples remembered, that 
it was written : Th£ zeal of 
thy house hath eaten me up. 
The Jews, therefore, answered. 



and said to him : What sign 
dost thou show unto us, seeing 
thou dost these things ? Jesus 
answered, and said to them : 
Destroy this temple, and in 
three days I will raise it up. 
The Jews then said : Six and 
forty years was this temple in 
building; and wilt thou raise 
it up in three days ? But he 
spoke of the temple of his body. 
When therefore he was risen 
again from the dead, his disci- 
ples remembered, that he had 
said this, and they believed the 
scripture, and the word that 
Jesus had said. 

2. Now when he was at 
Jerusalem, at the pasch, upon 



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the festival day, many believed 
in his name, seeing his signs 
which he did. But Jesus did 
not trust himself unto them, for 
that he knew ail men. And be- 
cause he needed not that any 
should give testimony of man : 
for he knew what was in man. 
3. (John 3. A. D. 31.) 
Now there was a man of the 
Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a 
ruler of the Jews. This man 
came to Jesus by night, and 
said to him : Rabbi, we know 
that thou art come a teacher 
from God ; for no man can do 
these signs which thou dost, 
unless God be with him. Jesus 
answered and said to him : 
Amen, amen I say to thee, un- 
less a man be born again, he 
cannot see the kingdom of God. 
Nicodemus saith to him : How 
can a man be born when he is 
old ? can he enter a second 
time into his mother's womb, 
and be born again ? Jesus an- 
swered : Amen, amen I say to 
thee, unless a man be born 
again of water and the Holy 
Ghost, he cannot enter into the 
kingdom of God. That which 
is born of the tlesh, is flesh ; and 
that which is born of the Spirit, 
is spirit. Wonder not, that I 
said to thee, you must be born 
again. The Spirit breatheth 
where he will ; and thou hearest 
his voice, but thou knowest not 
whence he cometh, and whither 
he goeth : so is every one that 
is born of the Spirit. Nicode- 
mus answered, and said to him : 
How can these thinsjs be done ? 
Jesus answered, and said to 



him: Art thou a master in 
Israel, and knowest not these 
things? Amen, amen I say to 
thee, that we speak what we 
know, and we testify what we 
have seen, and you receive not 
our testimony. If I have 
spoken to you earthl}'' things, 
and you believe not ; how will 
you believe, if I shall speak to 
you heavenly things ? And no 
man hath ascended into heav- 
en, but he that descended from 
heaven, the son of man who is 
in heaven. And as Moses lifted 
up the serpent in the desert, so 
must the son of man be lifted 
up: That whosoever believeth 
in him, may not perish ; but 
may have life everlasting. For 
God so loved the world, as to 
give his only-begotten Son ; 
that whosoever believeth in 
him, may not perish, but may 
have life everlasting. For God 
sent not his son into the world, 
to judge the world, but that the 
world may be saved by him. 
He that believeth in him is 
not judged. But he that doth 
not believe, is already judged : 
because he believeth not in the 
name of the only begotten son 
of God. And this is the judg- 
ment : because the light is come 
into the world, and men love 
darkness rather than the light : 
for their works were evil. For 
every one that doth evil hateth 
the light, and cometh not to the 
light, that his works may not 
be reproved. But he that doth 
truth, cometh to the light, that 
his works ma}^ be made mani- 
fest, because they are done in 



LIFE OF CHRIST. 



21 



God. After these things Jesus 
and his disciples came into the 
land of Judea : and there he 
abode witli them, and baptized. 
4. Now John also was bap- 
tizing in Ennon near Salira ; 
because there was much water 
there ; and they came and were 
baptized. For John was not 
yet cast into prison. And there 
arose a question between some 
of John's disciples and the Jews 
concerning purification : And 
they came to John, and said to 
him : Rabbi, he that was with 
thee beyond the Jordan, to 
whom thou gavest testimony, 
behold he baptizeth, and all 
men come to him. John an- 
swered and said : A man can- 
not receive any thing, unless it 
be given him from heaven. 
You 3"ourselves do bear me wit- 
ness, that I said, I am not 
Christ, but that I am sent be- 
fore him. He that hath the 
bride, is the bridegroom : but 
the friend of the bridegroom, 
who standeth and heareth him, 
rejoiceth with joy because of the 
bridegroom's voice. This my 
joy therefore is fulfilled. He 
must increase, but I must de- 
crease. He that cometh from 
above, is above all. He that is 
of the earth, of the earth he is, 
and of the earth he speaketh. 
He that cometh from heaven, is 
above all. And what he hath 
seen and heard, that he testi- 
fieth : and no man receiveth his 
testimony. He that hath re- 
ceived his testimony, hath set 
to his seal that God is true. 
For he whom God hath sent, 



' speaketh the words of God : for 
I God doth not give the spirit by 
' measure. The Father loveth 
the Son : and he hath given all 
things into his hand. He that 
belie vet h in the Son, hath life 
everlasting ; but he that be- 
lie veth not the Son, shall not 
see life ; but the wrath of God 
abideth on him. 

(John 4.) When Jesus there- 
fore understood that the Phari- 
sees had heard that Jesus mak- 
eth more disciples, and baptiz- 
eth more than John, (Though 
Jesus himself did not baptize, 
but his disciples,) He left Ju- 
dea, and went again into Gali- 
lee. 

5. (Luke 3.) But Herod 
the tetrarch, when he was re- 
proved by John for Herodias, 
his brother's wife, and for all 
the evils which Herod had 
done ; He added this also 
above all, and shut up John in 
prison. 

6. (John 4. A. D. 31.) Now 
Jesus was of necessity to pass 
through Samaria. He cometh 
therefore to a city of Samaria, 
which is called Sichar, near the 
land which Jacob gave to his 
son Joseph. Now Jacob's well 
was there. Jesus therefore be- 
ing wearied with his journey, 
sat thus on the well. It was 
about the sixth hour. There 
cometh a woman of Samaria, to 
draw water. Jesus saith to 
her : give me to drink. For 
his disciples were gone into the 
city to buy meats. Then that 
Samaritan woman saith to him : 
How dost thou, being a Jew, 



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ask of me to drink, who am a 
Samaritan woman ? For the 
Jews do not communicate with 
the Samaritans. Jesus an- 
swered, and said to her : If 
thou didst know the gift of 
God, and who he is that saith 
to thee, Give me to drink ; thou 
perhaps wouldst have asked of 
him, and he would have given 
thee living water. The woman 
saith to him : Sir, thou hast 
nothing wherein to draw, and 
the well is deep ; from whence 
then hast thou living water? 
Art thou greater tlian our 
father Jacob, who gave us the 
well, and drank thereof himself, 
and his children, and his cat- 
tle ? Jesus answered, and said 
to her: Whosoever drinketh 
of this water, shall thirst 
again ; but he that shall drink 
of the water that I will give 
him, shall not thirst for ever : 
But the water that I will give 
him, shall become in him a 
fountain of water, springing up 
into life everlasting. The wo- 
man saith to him : Sir, give 
me this water, that I may not 
thirst, nor come hither to draw. 
Jesus saith to her : Go, call 
thy husband, and come hither. 
The woman answered, and said : 
I have no husband. Jesus said 
to her : Thou hast said well, I 
have no husband : For thou 
hast had five husbands: and he 
w^hom thou now hast, is not thy 
husband. This thou hast said 
truly. The woman saith to 
him : Sir, I perceive that thou 
art a prophet. Our fathers 
adored on this mountain, and 



you say, that at Jerusalem is 
the place where men must adore. 
Jesus saith to her : Woman, 
believe me, that the hour 
Cometh, when you shall neither 
on this mountain, nor in Jeru- 
salem, adore the Father. You 
adore that which you know 
not : we adore that which we 
know; for salvation is of the 
Jews. But the hour cometh, and 
now is, when the true adorers 
shall adore the Father in spirit 
and in truth. For the Father 
also seeketh such to adore 
him. God is a spirit ; and they 
that adore him, must adore him 
in spirit and in truth. The 
woman saith to him : I know 
that the Messias cometh (who 
is called Christ) ; therefore, 
when he is come, he will tell us 
a'U things. Jesus saith to her : 
I am he, who am speaking with 
thee. And immediately his dis- 
ciples came ; and they won- 
dered that he talked with the 
woman. Yet no man said : 
What seekest thou ? or, why 
talkest thou with her? The 
woman therefore left her water- 
pot, and went her way into the 
city, and saith to the men 
there : Come, and see a man 
who has told me all things 
whatsoever I have done. Is 
not he the Christ? They went 
therefore out of the city, and 
came unto him. In the mean- 
time the disciples prayed him, 
saying : Rabbi, eat. But he 
said to them : I have meat 
to eat, which you know not. 
The disciples therefore said 
one to another : Hath any man 



LIFE OF CHRIST. 



^3 



brought him to eat? Jesus 
saith to them : My meat is to 
do the will of him that sent me, 
that I may perfect his work. 
Do not you say, There are yet 
four months, and then the har- 
vest Cometh ? Behold, I say to 
you, lift up your eyes, and see 
the countries ; for they are 
white already to harvest. And 
he that reapeth receiveth wages, 
and gathereth fruit unto life 
everlasting : that both he that 
soweth, and he that reapeth, 
may rejoice together. For in 
this is the saying true : That 
it is one man that soweth, and 
it is another that reapeth. I 
have sent you to reap that in 
-which you did not labour: 
others have laboured, and 3^ou 
Lave entered into their labours.^ 
Now of that city many of the 
Samaritans believed in him, for 
the word of the woman giving 
testimony : He told me all 
things whatsoever I have done. 
So when the Samaritans were 
come to him, they desired that 
he would tarry there. And he 
abode there two days. And 
many more believed in him be- 
cause of his own word. And 
they said to the woman : We 
now believe, not for thy say- 
ing : for we ourselves have 
heard him, and know that this 
is indeed the Saviour of the 
world. 

7. Now after two daj^s, he 
departed thence, and went into 
Galilee. For Jesus himself 
gave testimony that a prophet 
hath no honour in his own 
countr3\ And when he was 



come into Galilee, the Galileans 
received him, having seen all 
the things he had done at Jeru- 
salem on the festival day ; for 
they also went to the festival 
da3^ He came again therefore 
into Cana of Galilee, where he 
made the water wine. And 
there was a certain ruler, 
whose son was sick at Caphar- 
naum. He having heard, that 
Jesus was come from Judea 
into Galilee, went to him, and 
prayed him to come down, and 
heal his son ; for he was at the 
point of death. Jesus there- 
fore said to him : Unless you 
see signs and wonders, you be- 
lieve not. The ruler saith to 
him : Lord, come down before 
that my son die. Jesus saith 
to him : Go thy way ; thy son 
liveth. The man believed the 
word which Jesus said to him, 
and went his wa3^ And as he 
was going down, his servants 
met him ; and they brought 
word, saying, that his son lived. 
He asked therefore of them the 
hour wherein he grew better. 
And they said to him : Yester- 
day, at the seventh hour, the 
fever left him. The father 
therefore knew, that it was at 
the same hour that Jesus said 
to him, Thy son liveth; and 
himself believed, and his whole 
house. This is again the sec- 
ond miracle that Jesus did, 
when he was come out of Judea 
into Galilee. 

8. (Luke4. A.D. 31.) And 
Jesus returned in the power of 
the spirit, into Galilee, and the 
fame of him went out through 



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the whole country. And he 
taught in their synagogues, 
saying; The time is accom- 
plished, and the kingdom of 
God is at hand : repent, and 
believe tlie gospel. He was 
magnified by all. And he came 
to Nazareth, where he was 
brought up : and he went into 
the synagogue, according to his 
custom, on the sabbath day ; 
and he rose up to read. And 
the book of Isaias the prophet 
was delivered unto him. And 
as he unfolded the book, he 
found the place where it was 
written : The spirit of the Lord 
is upon me. Wherefore he hath 
anointed me to preach the gospel 
to the poor, he hath sent me to 
heal the contrite of heart , To 
preach deliverance to the cap- 
tives, and sight to the blind, to 
set at liberty them that are 
bruised, to preach the accepta- 
ble year of the Lord, and the 
day of reward. And when he 
had folded the book, he restored 
it to the minister, and sat down. 
And the eyes of all in the syna- 
gogue were fixed on him. And 
he began to say to them : This 
day is fulfilled tliis scripture in 
your ears. And all gave testi- 
mony to him : and they won- 
dered at the words of grace 
that proceeded from his mouth, 
and they said : Is not this the 
son of Joseph ? And he said 
to them : Doubtless you will 
say to me this similitude : 
Physician, heal thyself: as 
great things as we have heard 
done in Capharnaum, do also 
here in thy own country. And 



he said: Amen I say to yoii, 
that no prophet is accepted in 
his own country. In truth I 
say to you, there were many 
widows in the days of Elias in 
Israel, when heaven was shut 
up three years and six months, 
when there was a great famine 
throughout all the earth. And 
to none of them was Elias sent, 
but to Sarepta of Sidon, to a 
widow woman. And there 
were many lepers in Israel in 
the time of Eliseus the prophet : 
and none of them was cleansed 
but Naaman the S3^rian. And 
all they in the synagogue, hear- 
ing these things, were filled 
with anger. And they rose up 
and thrust him out of the city ; 
and they brought him to the 
brow of the hill, whereon their 
city was built, that they might 
cast him down headlong. But 
he passing through the midst 
of them, went his way. 

9. (Mat. 4. A. D. 31.)- Now 
when Jesus had heard that 
John was delivered up, he re- 
tired into Galilee : And leaving 
the city Nazareth, he came and 
dwelt in Capharnaum on the 
seacoast, in the borders of Zab- 
ulon and of Nephthalim ; That 
it might be fulfilled which was 
said by Isaias the prophet : 
Land of Zabulon and land of 
Nephthalim, the way of the sea 
beyond the Jordan, Galilee of 
the Gentiles: The people that 
sat in darkness, hath seen great 
light: and to them that sat in 
the region of the shadow of 
death, light is sprung up, 

(Mark 1.) And passing by 



LIFE OF CHRIST, 



25 



the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon 
and Andrew his brother, cast- 
ing nets into the sea (for they 
were fishermen.) And Jesiis 
said to them : Come after me, 
and I will malve you to become 
fishers of men. And immedi- 
ately leaving their nets, they 
followed him^ And going on 
from thence a little farther, he 
saw James the son of Zebedee, 
and John his brother, who also 
were mendino^ their nets in the 
ship: And forthwith he called 
them. And leavins: their father 
Zebedee in the ship with his 
hired men, they followed him. 

10. Now they entered into 
Capharnaum, and forthwith up- 
on the sabbath days going into 
the synagogue, he taught them. 
And they were astonished at 
his doctrine. For he was teach- 
ing them as one having power, 
and not as the scribes. And 
there was in their synagogue a 
man with an unclean spirit ; 
and he cried out. Saying : What 
have we to do with thee, Jesus 
of Nazareth ? art thou come to 
destroy us ? I know who thou 
art, the Holy one of God. And 
Jesus threatened him, saying : 
Speak no more, and go out of 
the man. And the unclean 
spirit tearing him, and cr3'ing 
out with a loud voice, went out 
of him. And they were all 
amazed, insomuch that they 
questioned among themselves, 
saying: What thing is this? 
what is this new doctrine ? for 
with power he commandeth 
even the unclean spirits, and 
they obey him. And the fame 



of him was spread forthwith 
into all the country of Galilee. 

U. But immediately going 
out of the synagogue they came 
into the house of Simon and 
Andrew, with James and John. 
And Simon's wife's mother lay 
in a fit of a fever : and forth- 
with they tell him of her. And 
coming to her, he lifted her up, 
taking her by the hand ; and 
immediately the fever left her, 
and she ministered unto them. 

(Luke 4.) And when the sun 
was down, all they that had 
any sick with divers diseases, 
brought them to him. But he 
laying his hands on every one 
of them, healed them. And 
devils went out from many, cry- 
ing out and saying : Thou art 
the son of God. And rebuking 
them he suffered them not to 
speak, for they knew that he 
was Christ. And when it was 
day, going out he went into a 
desert place, and the multitudes 
sought him, and came unto him : 
and they stayed him that he 
should not depart from them. 
To whom he said : To other 
cities also I must preach the 
kingdom of God : for therefore 
am I sent. And he was preach- 
ing in the synagogues of Gali- 
lee. 

12. (Luke 5.) Now it came 
to pass, that when the multi- 
tudes pressed upon him to hear 
the word of God, he stood by 
the lake of Genesareth, And 
saw two ships standing by the 
lake : but the fishermen were 
gone out of them, and were 
washing their nets. And going 



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into one of the ships that was 
Simon's, he desired him to draw 
back a little from the land. 
And sitting he taught the mul- 
titudes out of the ship. Now 
when he had ceased to speak, 
be said to Simon : Launch out 
into the deep, and let down 
your nets for a draught. And 
Simon answering said to him : 
Master, we have laboured all 
the niglit, and have taken noth- 
ing : but at thy word I will let 
down the net. And when they 
bad done this, they enclosed a 
very great multitude of fishes, 
and their net broke. And they 
beckoned to their partners that 
were in the other ship, that they 
should come and help them. 
And they came, and filled both 
the ships, so that they were al- 
most sinking. Which when 
Simon Peter saw, he fell down 
at Jesus's knees, sajdng : De- 
part from me, for I am a sinful 
man, O Lord. For he was 
wholly astonished, and all that 
were with him, at the draught 
of the fishes which they had 
taken. And so were also James 
and John the sons of Zebedee, 
who were Simon's partners. 
And Jesus saith to Simon : 
Fear not : from henceforth thou 
shalt catch men. And having 
brought their ships to land, 
leaving all things, they followed 
him. 

13. (Mark 1.) Now there 
came a leper to him, beseeching 
him, and kneeling down said to 
him : If thou wilt, thou canst 
make me clean. And Jesus 
having compassion on him, 



stretched forth his hand ; and 
touching him, saith to him : I 
will. Be .thou made clean. 
And when he had spoken, im- 
mediately the leprosy departed 
from him, and he was made 
clean. And he strictl}^ charged 
him, and forthwith sent him 
away. And he ^aith to him : 
See thou tell no one ; but go, 
shew th3'self to the high-priest, 
and offer for thy cleansing the 
things that Moses commanded, 
for a testimony to them. But 
he being gone out, began to 
publish and to blaze abroad the 
word : so that he could not 
openly go into the cit}^ but 
was without in desert places : 
and they flocked to him from 
all sides. 

14. (Luke 5.) Now it came 
to pass on a certain day, as he 
sat teaching, that there were 
also Pharisees and doctors of 
the law sitting by, that were 
come out of every town of Gal- 
ileo, and Judea and Jerusalem: 
and the power of the Lord was 
to heal them. And behold, 
men brought in a bed a man, 
who had the palsy : and they 
sought means to bring him in, 
and to lay him before him. 
And when they could not find 
b}'' what way they might bring 
him in, because of the multi- 
tude, they went up upon the 
roof, and let him down through 
the tiles with his bed into the 
midst before Jesus. Whose 
faith when he saw, he said : 
Man, thy sins are forgiven 
thee. And the scribes and 
Pharisees began to think, say- 



LIFE OF CHRIST, 



27 



ing; Who is this who speaketh 
blasphemies? Who can forgive 
sins, but God alone? And when 
Jesus knew their thoughts, an- 
swering, he said to them : What 
is it you think in your hearts ? 
Which is easier to say, Thy 
sins are forgiven thee; or to 
say. Arise and walk ? But that 
you may know that the son of 
man hath power on earth to 
forgive sins (he saith to the 
sick of the palsy) I say to 
thee, Arise, take np thy bed, 
and go into thy house. And 
immediately rising up before 
them, he took up the bed on 
which he lay ; and he went 
away to his own house, glorify- 
ing God. And all were aston- 
ished ; and they glorified God. 
And they were filled with fear, 
saying ; We have seen wonder- 
ful things to-day. 

15. (Mark 9.) And when Je- 
sus passed on from thence, he 
saw a man sitting in the custom- 
house, named Matthew ; and he 
saith to him : Follow me. And 
he arose up and followed him. 

(Luke 5.) And Levi made 
him a great feast in his own 
house; and there was a great 
company of publicans, and of 
others, that were at table with 
them. But the Pharisees and 
scribes murmured, saying to 



his disciples : Why do you eat 
and drink with publicans and 
sinners ? And Jesus answering, 
said to them : They that are 
whole, need not the physician : 
but they that are sick. I came 
not to call the just, but sinners 
to penance. And they said to 
him : Why do the disciples of 
John fast often, and make pra}'- 
ers, and the disciples of the 
Pharisees in like manner; but 
thine eat and drink? To whom 
he said : Can you make the 
children of the bridegroom fast, 
whilst the bridegroom is with 
them ? But the days will come, 
when the bridegroom shall be 
taken away from them, then 
shall they fast in those daj^s. 
And he spoke also a similitude 
to them : That no man putteth 
a piece from a new garment 
upon an old garment; other- 
wise he both rendeth the new, 
and the piece taken from the 
new agreeth not with the old. 
And no man putteth new wine 
into old bottles : otherwise the 
new wine will break the bottles, 
and it will be spilled, and the 
bottles will be lost. But new 
wine must be put into new bot- 
tles ; and both are preserved. 
And no man drinking old, hath 
presently a mind to new : for 
he saith, The old is better. 



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CHAPTER IV. 



MIRACLES, DOCTRINE AND PARABLES. 



1. (John 5. A. D. 31.) Af- 
ter these things was a festival 
day of the Jews, and Jesus 
went up to Jerusalem. Now 
there is at Jerusalem a pond, 
called Probatica, which in He- 
brew is named Bethsaida, hav- 
ing five porches. In these la}^ 
a great multitude of sick, of 
blind, of lame, of withered ; 
waiting for the moving of the 
water. And an Anoel of the 
Lord descended at certain times 
into the pond ; and the water 
was moved. And he that went 
down first into the pond after 
the motion of the water, was 
made whole, of whatsoever in- 
firmity he lay under. And 
there was a certain man there, 
that had been eight and thirty 
years under his infirmity. Him 
when Jesus had seen lying, and 
knew that he had been now a 
long time, he saith to him ; 
Wilt thou be made whole ? The 
infirm man answered him : Sir, 
I have no man, when the water 
is troubled, to put me into the 
pond. For whilst I am com- 
ing, another goeth down before 
me. Jesus saith to him : Arise, 
take up thy bed, and walk. 
And immediately the man was 
made whole: and he took up 
his bed, and walked. And it 
was the sabbath that da3^ The 
Jews therefore said to him that 
was healed : It is the sabbath ; 



it is not lawful for thee to take 
up thy bed. He answered 
them : He that made me whole, 
he said to me, Take up thy bed, 
and walk. They asked him 
therefore : Who is that man 
who said to thee. Take up thy 
bed, and walk? But he who 
was healed, knew not who it 
was ; for Jesus went aside from 
the multitude standing in the 
place. Afterwards, Jesus find- 
eth him in the temple, and saith 
to him : Behold thou art made 
whole : sin no more, lest some 
worse thing happen to thee. 
The man went his way, and 
told the Jews, that it was Je- 
sus who had made him whole. 
Therefore did the Jews perse- 
cute Jesus, because he did these 
things on the sabbath. But 
Jesus answered them : My 
Father worketh until now ; and 
I work. Hereupon therefore 
the Jews sought the more to 
kill him, because he did not 
only break the sabbath, but also 
said God was his Father, mak- 
ing himself equal to God. 

2. Then Jesus answered, 
and said to them : Amen, amen, 
I say unto you, the Son cannot 
do any thing of himself, but 
what he seeth the father doing : 
for what things soever he doth, 
these the Son also doth in like 
manner. For the Father lov- 
eth the Son, and sheweth him 



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all things which himself doth ; 
and greater works than these 
will he shew him, that you may 
wonder. For as the Father 
raiseth up the dead, and giveth 
life : so the Son also giveth life 
to whom he will. For neither 
doth the Father judge any man, 
but hath given all judgment to 
the Son. That all men may 
honour the Son, as they honour 
the Father. He who honour- 
eth not the Son, honoureth not 
the Father, who hath sent him. 
Amen, amen, I say unto you, 
that he who heareth my word, 
and believeth him that sent me, 
hath life everlasting ; and com- 
eth not into judgment, but is 
passed from death to life. 
Amen, amen, I say unto you, 
that the hour coraeth, and now 
is, when the dead shall hear 
the voice of the Son of God, 
and they that hear shall live. 
For as the Father hath life in 
himself, so he hath given to the 
Son also to have life in him- 
self: And he hath given him 
power to do judgment, because 
he is the son of man. Wonder 
not at this ; for the hour Com- 
eth, wherein all that are in the 
graves shall hear the voice of 
the Son of God. And they 
that have done good things, 
shall come forth unto the resur- 
rection of life ; but they that 
have done evil, unto the resur- 
rection of judgment. I cannot 
of myself do any thing. As I 
hear, so I judge : and my judg- 
ment is just; because I seek 
not my own will, but the will 
of him that sent me. If I bear 



witness of myself, my witness 
is not true. There is another 
that beareth witness of me; 
and I know that the witness 
which he witnesseth of me is 
true. You sent to John, and 
he gave testimony to the truth. 
But I receive not testimony 
from man ; but I say these 
things, that you may be saved. 
He was a burning and a shin- 
ing light ; and 3^ou were willing 
for a time to rejoice in his light. 
But I have a greater testimony 
than that of John : for the 
works which the Father hath 
given me to perfect ; the works 
themselves, which I do, give 
testimony of me, that the Father 
hath sent me. And the Father 
himself who hath sent me, hath 
given testimony of me : neither 
have you heard his voice at 
any time, nor seen his shape. 
And you have not his word 
abiding in j-ou : for whom he 
hath sent, him you believe not. 
Search the Scriptures, for you 
think in them to have life ever- 
lasting ; and the same are they 
that give testimony of me. And 
you will not come to me that 
you may have life. I receive 
not glory from men. But I 
know you, that you have not 
the love of God in you. I am 
come in the name of m}' Father, 
and you receive me not : if an- 
other shall come in his own 
name, him you will receive. 
How can you believe, who re- 
ceive glory one from another : 
and the glory which is from 
God alone, you do not seek? 
Think not that I will accuse 



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you to the Father. There is 
one that aecuseth you, Moses, 
in whom you trust. For if you 
did believe Moses you would 
perhaps believe me also ; for he 
wrote of me. But if you do 
not believe his writings, how 
will you believe my words? 

3. (Mat. 12.) At that time 
Jesus went through the corn on 
the sabbath : and his disciples 
being hungry, began to pluck 
the ears, and to eat. And the 
Pharisees seeing them, said to 
him : Behold thy disciples do 
that which is not lawful to do 
on the sabbath days. But he 
said to them : have you not 
read what David did when he 
was hungry, and they that were 
with him : How he entered 
into the house of God, and did 
eat the loaves of proposition, 
which it was not lawful for 
him to eat, nor for them that 
were with him, but for the 
priests only ? Or have ye not 
read in the law, that on the 
sabbath daj^s the priests in the 
temple break the sabbath, and 
are without blame ? But I tell 
you that there is here a greater 
than the temple. And if you 
knew what this meaneth : / 
will have mercy ^ and not sacri- 
Jice: you would never have 
condemned the innocent. For 
the son of man is Lord even of 
the sabbath. 

4. (A. D. 31.) Now when 
he had passed from thence, he 
came into their s3^nagogues. 
And behold there was a man 
who had a withered hand, and 
they asked him, saying : Is it 



lawful to heal on the sabbath 
days ? that they might accuse 
him. But he said to them: 
What man shall there be 
among you, that hath one 
sheep : and if the same fall into 
a pit on the sabbath day, will 
he not take hold on it and lift 
it up ? How much better is a 
man than a sheep ? Therefore 
it is lawful to do a good deed 
on the sabbath days. Then he 
saith to the man : Stretch forth 
thy hand ; and he stretched it 
forth, and it was restored to 
health even as the other. And 
the Pharisees going out made a 
consultation against him, how 
they might destroy him. But 
Jesus knowing it, retired from 
thence : and many followed 
him, and he healed them all. 
And he charged them that they 
should not make him known. 
That it might be fulfilled which 
was spoken by Isaias the 
prophet, sajMug : Behold my 
servant whom I have chosen^ 
my beloved in whom my soul 
hath been well pleased. I 
will put my spirit upon him, 
and he shall shew judgment to 
the gentiles. He shall not con- 
tend^ nor cry outj neither 
shall any man hear his voice in 
the streets. The bruised reed 
he shall not break: and smok- 
ing flax he shall not extinguish : 
till he send forth judgment unto 
victory. And in his name the 
gentiles shall hope. 

5. (Luke 6.) Now it came 
to pass in those days, that he 
went out into a mountain to 
pray, and he passed the whole 



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night in the pra^^er of God. 
And when day was come, he 
called unto him his disciples ; 
And he chose twelve of them 
(whom also he named Apostles) : 
Simon, whom he surnamed 
Peter, and Andrew his brother, 
James and John, Philip and 
Bartholomew, Matthew and 
Thomas^ James the son of Al- 
pheus,and Simon who is called 
Zelotes, And Jude, the brother 
of James, and Judas Iscariot, 
who was the traitor. 

6. Now coming down with 
them, he stood in. a plain place, 
and the company of his dis- 
ciples, and a very great multi- 
tude of people from all Judea 
and Jerusalem, and the sea- 
coast both of Tyre and Sidon, 
who were come to hear him, 
and to be healed of their dis- 
eases. And they that were 
troubled w^ith unclean spirits, 
were cured. And all the mul- 
titude sought to touch him, for 
virtue went out from him, and 
healed all. 

7. (Mat. 5.) But he, lifting 
up his eyes on his disciples, 
said : Blessed are the poor in 
spirit: for theirs is the king- 
dom of heaven. Blessed are 
the meek: for they shall pos- 
sess the land. Blessed are 
they that mourn : for they shall 
be comforted. Blessed are they 
that hunger and thirst after 
justice: for they shall have 
their fill. Blessed are the 
merciful : for the}^ shall obtain 
mercy. Blessed are the clean 
of heart : for they shall see 
God. Blessed are the peace- 



makers : for they shall be called 
the children of God. Blessed 
are they that sufler persecu- 
tion for justice' sake : for theirs 
is the kingdom of heaven. 
Blessed are ye when thej^ shall 
revile. you, and persecute you, 
and speak all that is evil against 
you, untruly, for my sake : 
Be glad and rejoice, for your 
reward is very great in heaven. 
For so they persecuted the 
prophets that were before you. 

8. You are the salt of the 
earth. But if the salt lose its 
savour, wherewith shall it be 
salted ? It is good for nothing 
any more but to be cast out 
and to be trodden on by men. 
You are the light of the world. 
A city seated on a mountain 
cannot be hid. Neither do men 
light a candle and put it under 
a bushel, but upon a candle- 
stick, that it may shine to all 
that are in the house. So let 
your light shine before men, 
that they may see your good 
works, and glorify your Father 
who is in heaven. 

9. Do not think that I am 
come to destroy the law, or the 
prophets. I am not come to 
destrov, but to fulfill. For 
amen I say unto you, till heav- 
en and earth pass, one jot, or 
one tittle shall not pass of the 
law, till all be fulfilled. He 
therefore that shall break one 
of these least commandments, 
and shall so teach men, shall be 
called the least in the kingdom 
of heaven. But he that shall 
do and teach, he shall be called 
great in the kingdom of heaven. 



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For I tell you, that unless your 
justice abound more than that 
of the Scribes and Pharisees, 
you shall not enter into the 
kinGjdom of heaven. You have 
heard that it was said to them 
of old : thou shall not kill. 
And whosoever shall kill shall 
be in danger of the judgment. 
But I say to you, that whoso- 
ever is angry with his brother, 
shall be in danger of the judg- 
ment. And whosoever shall 
say to his brother, Raca, shall 
be in danger of the council. 
And whosoever shall say. Thou 
fool, shall be in danger of hell 
fire. If therefore thou offer 
thy gift at the altar, and there 
thou remember that thy brother 
hath any thing against thee ; 
Leave there thy offering before 
the altar, and go first to be 
reconciled to thy brother : and 
then coming thou shalt offer 
thy gift. Be at agreement with 
thy adversary betimes, whilst 
thou art in the way with him: 
lest perhaps the adversary de- 
liver thee to the judge, and the 
judge deliver thee to the officer, 
and thou be cast into prison. 
Amen I say to thee, thou shalt 
not go out from thence till thou 
re-pay the last farthing. 

10. You have heard that it 
was said to them of old : Thou 
shalt not commit adultery. 
But I say to you, that whoso- 
ever shall looit on a woman to 
lust after her, hath already 
committed adultery with her in 
his heart. And if thy right 
eye scandalize thee, pluck it 
out and cast it from thee. For 



it is expedient for thee that one 
of thy members should perish, 
rather than thy whole body be 
cast into hell. And if thy right 
hand scandalize thee, cut it off, 
and cast it from thee : for it is 
expedient for thee that one of 
thy members should perish, 
rather than that thy whole body 
go into hell. 

11. Again 3^ou have heard 
that it was said to them of old, 
Thou shalt not forswear thy- 
self: but thou shalt perform thy 
oaths to the Lord. But I say 
to you not to sw^ear at all, 
neither by heaven, for it is the 
throne of God : Nor by the 
earth, for it is his footstool : 
nor by Jerusalem, for it is the 
city of the great king : Neith- 
er shalt thou swear by thy 
head, because thou canst not 
make one hair white or black. 
But let 3^our speech be yea, 
yea : no, no : and that which is 
over and above these, is of evil. 

12. You have heard that it 
hath been said. An eye for an 
eye, and a tooth for a tooth. 
But I say to you not to resist 
evil : but if one strike thee on 
thy right cheek, turn to him 
also the other : And if a man 
will contend with thee in judg- 
ment, and take away thy coat, 
let go thy cloak also unto him. 
And whosoever will force thee 
one mile, go with him other 
two. Give to him that asketh 
of thee, and from him that would 
borrow of thee turn not awa3\ 

13. (A. D. 31.) You have 
heard that it hath been 
said. Thou shalt love thy 



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neighbour, and hate thy enemy. 
But I say to you, Love your 
enemies : do good to them tbat 
hate 3'ou : and pray for them 
that persecute and calumniate 
you : That you may be the 
children of 3"our Father who is 
in heaven, who maketh his sun 
to rise upon the good, and bad, 
and raineth upon the just and 
the unjust. For if you love 
them that love you, what re- 
ward shall you have ? do not 
even the jjublicans this ? And 
if you salute your brethren 
onl}^, what do you more ? do 
not also the heathens this ? Be 
3"ou therefore perfect, as also 
your heavenly Father is perfect. 

14. (Mat. 6.) Take heed 
that you do not your justice be- 
fore men, to be seen by them : 
otherwise you shall not have a 
reward of your Father who is 
in heaven. Therefore when 
thou dost an alms-deed, sound 
not a trumpet before thee, as 
the hj^pocrites do in the sjma- 
gogues and in the streets, that 
they may be honoured by men. 
Amen I say to you, they have 
received their reward. But 
when thou dost alms, let not 
thy left hand know what thy 
right hand doth. That thy 
alms may be in secret, and thy 
Father who seeth in secret will 
repay thee. 

15. And when ye pray, you 
shall not be as the hypocrites, 
that love to stand and pray in 
the synagogues and corners of 
the streets, that they may be 
seen by men: Amen I say to 
you, they liave received their 



reward. But thou when thou 
sbalt pray, enter into thy cham- 
ber, and having shut the door, 
pray to thy Father in secret : 
and thy Father who seeth in 
secret will repay thee. And 
when you are praying, speak 
not much, as the heathens. 
For the}^ think that in their 
much speaking they may be 
heard. Be not 3'ou therefore 
like to them, for your Father 
knoweth what is needful for 
you, before you ask him. 

16. And when you fast, be 
not as the hypocrites, sad. 
For they disfigure their faces, 
that they may appear unto men 
to fast. Amen I say to you, 
they have received their reward. 
But thou, when thou fastest 
anoint thy head, and wash thy 
face ; That thou appear not to 
men to fast, but to thy Father 
who is in secret : and thy 
Father who seeth in secret, 
will repay thee. 

n. (Mat. 7.) Judge not, 
that you may not be judged. 
For with what judgment you 
judge, you shall be judged : and 
with what measure you mete, it 
shall be measured to you again. 
And why seest thou the mote 
that is in thy brother's eye ; 
and seest not the beam that is 
in thy own eye ? Or how say- 
est thou to thy brother: Let 
me cast the mote out of thy 
eye; and behold a beam is in 
tiiy own eye ? Thou hypocrite, 
cast out first the beam out of 
thy own e^^e, and then shalt 
thou see to cast out the mote 
out of thy brother's eye. 



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18. (Luke 6.) Give, and it 
shall be giveu to you : good 
measure and pressed down and 
shaken together and running 
over shall they give into your 
bosom. For with the same 
measure that you shall mete 
withal, it shall be measured to 
you again. And he spoke also 
to them a similitude : Can the 
blind lead the blind? do they 
not both fall into the ditch? 
The disciple is not above his 
master : but every one shall be 
perfect, if he be as his master. 

19. (Mat. 7.) Give not that 
which is holy to dogs ; neither 
cast ye your pearls before swine, 
lest perhaps they trample them 
under their feet, and turning 
upon you, they tear 3^ou. Ail 
things therefore whatsoever 
you would that men should do 
to you, do you also to them. 
For this is the law and the 
prophets. 

20. Enter ye in at the nar- 
row gate: for wide is the gate, 
and broad is the way that lead- 
eth to destruction, and many 
there are who go in thereat. 
How narrow is the gate, and 
strait is the way that leadeth 
to life : and few there are that 
find it I 

21. Beware of false prophets, 
who come to j'ou in the cloth- 
ing of sheep, but inwardly they 
are ravening wolves. By their 
fruits you shall know them. 
Do men gather grapes of thorns, 
or figs of thistles? Even so 
every good tree bringeth forth 
good fruit, and the evil tree 
bringeth forth evil fruit. A 



good tree cannot bring forth 
evil fruit, neither can an evil 
tree bring forth good fruit. 
Every tree that bringeth not 
forth good fruit, shall be cut 
down, and shall be cast into the 
fire. Wherefore by their fruits 
you shall know them. Not 
every one that saith to me, 
Lord, Lord, shall enter into the 
kingdom of heaven : but he 
that doth the will of my Father 
who is in heaven, he shall enter 
into the kingdom of heaven. 
Many will say to me in that 
day : Lord, Lord, have not we 
prophesied in thy name, and 
cast out devils in thy name, 
and done many miracles in thy 
name? And then will I pro- 
fess unto them, I never knew 
you : depart from me, you that 
work iniquity. 

22. Every one therefore 
that heareth these my words, 
and doth them, shall be likened 
to a wise man that built his 
house upon a rock, And the 
rain fell, and the floods came, 
and the winds blew, and they 
beat upon that house, and it 
fell not, for it was founded on a 
rock. And every one that 
heareth these my words, and 
doth them not, shall be like a 
foolish man that built his house 
upon the sand. And the rain 
fell, and the floods came, and 
the winds blew, and they beat 
upon that house, and it fell, 
and great was the fall thereof. 
And it came to pass when 
Jesus had fully ended these 
words, the people were in ad- 
miration at his doctrine. For 



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he was teaching them as one 
having power, and not as the 
scribes and Pharisees. 

23. (Luke 7.) Now when 
he had finished all his words in 
the hearing of the people, he 
entered into Capharnaum. And 
the servant of a certain cen- 
turion, who was dear to him, 
being sick, was ready to die. 
And when he had heard of 
Jesus, he sent unto him the 
ancients of the Jews, desiring 
him to come and heal his serv- 
ant. And when they came to 
Jesus, they besought him 
earnestly, saying to him : He is 
worthy that thou shouldest do 
this for him. For he loveth 
our nation ; and he hath built 
us a synagogue. And Jesus 
went with them. And when he 
was now not far from the house, 
the centurion sent his friends 
to him, saying: Lord, trouble 
not thyself; for I am not 
worthy that thou shouldest 
enter under my roof. For 
which cause neither did I think 
mj^self worthy to come to thee ; 
but say the word, and my serv- 
ant shall be healed. For I also 
am a man subject to authority, 
having under me soldiers : and 
I say to one. Go, and he goeth ; 
and to another, Come, and he 
Cometh ; and to my servant, 
Do this, and he doth it. Which 
Jesus hearing, marvelled : and 
turning about to the multitude 
that followed him, he said : 
Amen I say to 3^ou, I have not 
found so great faith, not even in 
Israel. And they who were 
sent, being returned to the 



house, found the servant whole 
who had been sick. 

24. Now it came to pass 
afterwards, that he went into a 
city that is called Naim ; and 
there went with him his dis- 
ciples, and a great multitude. 
And when he came nigh to the 
gate of the city, behold a dead 
man was carried out, the onlv 
son of his mother ; and she 
was a widow : and a great mul- 
titude of the cit}^ was with her. 
Whom when the Lord had 
seen, being moved with mercy 
towards her, he said to her : 
Weep not. And he came near 
and touched the bier. And 
they that carried it, stood still. 
And he said: Young man, I 
say to thee, arise. And he that 
was dead, sat up, and began to 
speak. And he gave him to 
his mother. And there came a 
fear on them all : and they 
glorified God, saying : A great 
prophet is risen up among us : 
and, God hath visited his peo- 
ple. And this rumour of him 
went forth throughout all 
Judea, and throughout all the 
country round about. And 
John's disciples told him of all 
these things. 

25. Now John called to 
him two of his disciples, and 
sent them to Jesus, saying : 
Art thou he that art to come ; 
or look we for another ? And 
when the men were come unto 
him, the}'' said: John the Bap- 
tist hath sent us to thee, sa}^- 
ing : art thou he that art to 
come ; or look we for another ? 
(And in that same hour, he 



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cured many of their diseases, 
and hurts, and evil spirits : 
and to many that were blind he 
gave sight.) And answering, 
he said to tliem : Go and relate 
to John what you have heard 
and seen : The blind see, the 
lame walk, the lepers are made 
clean, the deaf hear, the dead rise 
again, to the poor the gospel is 
preached : And blessed is he 
whosoever shall not be scandal- 
ized in me. 

26. (A. D.31.) Now when 
the messengers of John were 
departed, he began to speak to 
the multitudes concerning John. 
What went ye out into the de- 
sert to see ? a reed shaken with 
the wind ? But what went you 
out to see? a man clothed in 
soft garments? Behold they 
that are in costly apparel and 
live delicately, are in the 
houses of kings. But what 
went you out to see ? a proph- 
et? Yea, I say to you, and 
more than a prophet. This is 
he of whom it is written : Be- 
hold I send my angel before thy 
face^ ivho shall prepare thy way 
before thee. For I say to you : 
Amongst those that are born 
of women, there is not a great- 
er prophet than John the Bap- 
tist. But he that is the lesser 
in the kingdom of God, is 
greater than he. And all the 
people hearing, and the publi- 
cans, justified God, being bap- 
tized with John's baptism. 
But the Pharisees and the law- 
yers despised the counsel of 
God against themselves, being 
not baptized by him. And the 



Lord said: Whereunto then 
shall I liken the men of this 
generation ? and to what are 
they like? They are like to 
children sitting in the market- 
place, and speaking one to an- 
other, and saying : We have 
piped to you, and you have not 
danced : we have mourned, and 
you have not wept. For John 
the Baptist came neither eat- 
ing bread nor drinking wine; 
and you say : He hath a devil. 
The Son of man is come eating 
and drinking : and you say : 
Behold a man that is a glutton 
and a drinker of wine, a friend 
of publicans and sinners. And 
wisdom is justified by all her 
children. 

27. Now one of the Phari- 
sees desired him to eat with 
him. And he went into the 
house of the Pharisee, and sat 
down to meat. And behold a 
woman that was in the city, a 
sinner, when she knew that he 
sat at meat in the Pharisee's 
house, brought an alabaster- 
box of ointment; And stand- 
ing behind at his feet, she be- 
gan to wash his feet, with tears, 
and wiped them with the hairs 
of her head, and kissed his 
feet, and anointed them with 
the ointment. And the Phari- 
see, who had invited him, see- 
ing it, spoke within himself, 
saying : This man, if he were a 
prophet, would know surely 
who and what manner of woman 
this is that toucheth him, that 
she is a sinner. And Jesus an- 
swering, said to him : Simon, I 
have somewhat to say to thee. 



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37 



But he said : Master, say it. A 
certain creditor bad two debt- 
ors, the one owed five hundred 
pence, and the other fifty. And 
whereas they had not where- 
with to pay, he forgave them 
both. Which therefore of the 
two loveth him most ? 8imon 
answering said : I suppose that 
he to whom he forgave most. 
And he said to him : Thou hast 
judged rightly. And turning 
to the woman, he said unto 
Simon : Dost thou see this 
woman ? I entered into thy 
house, thou gavest me no 
water for my feet ; but she with 
tears hath washed my feet, and 
with her hairs hath wiped 
them. Thou gavest me no 
kiss ; but she, since she came 
in, hatli not ceased to liiss my 
feet. My head with oil thou 
didst not anoint; but she with 
ointment hath anointed my 
feet. Wherefore I say to thee : 
Many sins are forgiven her, be- 
cause she hath loved much. 
But to whom less is forgiven, 
he loveth less. And he said to 
her : Thy sins are forgiven 
thee. And they that sat at 
meat with him began to say 
within themselves : Who is this 
that forgiveth sins also ? And 
he said to the woman : Thy 
faith hath made thee safe, go in 
peace. 

28. (Luke 8.) Now it 
came to pass afterwards, that 
he travelled through the cities 
and towns, preaching and 
evangelizing the kingdom of 
God ; and the twelve with him. 
And certain women who had 



been healed of evil spirits and 
infirmities; Mary who is called 
Magdalen, out of whom seven 
devils were gone forth. And 
Joanna the wife of Chusa, 
Herod's steward, and Susanna, 
and many others who minis- 
tered unto him of their sub- 
stance followed him. 

(Mark 3.) And they come 
to a house, and the multitude 
Cometh together again, so that 
they could not so much as eat 
bread. And when his friends 
had heard of it, they went out 
to lay hold on him. For they 
said : He is become mad. And 
the scribes who were come 
down from Jerusalem, said: 
He hath Beelzebub, and by the 
prince of devils he casteth out 
devils. And after he had 
called them together, he said to 
them in parables : How can 
satan cast out satan ? And if a 
kingdom be divided against it- 
self, that kingdom cannot 
stand. And if a house be 
divided against itself, that 
house cannot stand. And if 
satan be risen up against him- 
self, he is divided, and cannot 
stand, but hath an end. No 
man can enter into the house of 
a strong man and rob him of 
his goods, unless he first bind 
the strong man, and then shall 
he plunder his house. Amen I 
say to you, that all sins shall 
be forgiven unto the sons of 
men, and the blasphemies where- 
with they shall blaspheme : 
But he that shall blaspheme 
against the Holy Ghost, shall 
never have forgiveness, but 



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shall be g-nilty of an everlast- 
ing sin. Because they said: 
He hath an unclean spirit. 

29. Now his mother and 
his brethren came ; and stand- 
ing without, sent unto him, 
calling him. And the multi- 
tude sat about him ; and they 
say to him : Behold thy moth- 
er and thy brethren without 
seek for thee. And answering 
them, he said : Who is my 
mother and my brethren ? And 
looking round about on them 
who sat about him, he saith : 
Behold my mother and my 
brethren. For whosoever shall 
do the will of God, he is my 
brother, and my sister, and 
mother. 

30. (Luke 8.) Now when 
a very great multitude was gath- 
ered together, and hastened 
out of the cities unto him, he 
spoke by a similitude. The 
sower went out to sow his seed. 
And as he sowed, some fell by 
the Wayside, and it was trod- 
den down, and the fowls of the 
air devoured it. And other 
some fell upon a rock : and as 
soon as it was sprung up, it 
withered away, because it had 
no moisture. And other some 
fell among thorns, and the 
thorns growing up with it, 
choked it. And other some 
fell upon good ground ; and 
being sprung up, yielded fruit 
a hundredfold. Saying these 
things, he cried out : He that 
hath ears to hear, let him hear. 
And his disciples asked him 
what this parable might be. 
To whom he said : To you it is 



given to know the mystery of 
the kingdom of God ; but to 
the rest in parables, that see- 
ing they may not see, and hear- 
ing may not understand. Now 
the -parable is this : The seed is 
the word of God. And they 
by the wayside are they that 
hear, then the devil cometh, 
and taketh the word out of 
their heart, lest believing they 
should be saved. Now they 
upon the rock; are they who 
when they hear, receive the 
word with joy : and these have 
no roots ; for they believe for a 
while, and in time of tempta- 
tion, they fall awa3^ And that 
which fell among thorns, are 
they who have heard, and go- 
ing their way are choked with 
the cares and riches and pleas- 
ures of this life, and yield no 
fruit. But that on the good 
ground, are they who in a good 
and ver}'' good heart, hearing 
the word, keep it, and bring 
forth fruit in patience. 

31. Now no man lighting a 
candle covereth it with a vessel, 
or putteth it under a bed ; but 
setteth it upon a candlestick, 
that they who come in ma}'^ see 
the light. For there is not 
any thing secret that shall not 
be made manifest, nor hidden, 
that shall not be known and 
come abroad. Take heed there- 
fore how you hear. For who- 
soever hath, to him shall be 
given : and wliosoever hath not, 
that also which he thinketh he 
hath, shall be taken away from 
him. 

32. (Mark 4.) And he said: 



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39 



So is the kingdom of God, as if 
a man sboiikl cast seed into the 
earth, And should sleep, and 
rise, night and day, and the 
seed should spring, and grow 
up whilst he knoweth not. For 
the earth of itself bringeth 
forth fruit, first the blade, then 
the ear, afterwards the full corn 
in the ear. And when the 
fruit is brought forth, imme- 
diately he putteth in the sickle, 
because the harvest is come. 

33. (Mat. 13.) Another 
parable he proposed to them, 
saying : The kingdom of heaven 
is likened to a man that sowed 
good seed in his field. But 
while men were asleep, his 
enemy came and oversowed 
cockle among the wheat and 
went his way. And when the 
blade was sprung up, and had 
brought forth fruit, then ap- 
peared also the cockle. And 
the servants of the goodman of 
the house coming said to him : 
Sir, didst thou not sow good 
seed in thy field ? whence then 
hath it cockle? And he said 
to them : An enemy hath done 
this. And the servants said to 
him : Wilt thou that we go and 
gather it up? And he said: 
No, lest perhaps gathering up 
the cockle, you root up the 
wheat also together with it. 
Suffer both to grow until the 
harvest, and in the time of the 
harvest I will say to the reap- 
ers: Gather up first the cockle, 
and bind it into bundles to 
burn, but the wheat gather ye 
into my barn. All these things 
Jesus si^oke in parables to the 



multitudes: and without para- 
bles he did not speak to them. 
That it might be fulfilled which 
was spoken by the prophet, 
saying : / will open my mouth 
in parables^ I ivill utter' things 
hidden from the foundation of 
the world. Then having sent 
away the multitudes, he came 
into the house, and his disciples 
came to him, saying: Expound 
to us the parable of the cockle 
of the field. Who made an- 
swer and said to them : He that 
sow^eth the good seed, is the 
son of man. And the field, is 
the world. And the good seed 
are the children of the king- 
dom. And the cockle, are the 
children of the wicked one. 
And the enemy that sowed 
them, is the devil. But the 
harvest is the end of the world. 
And the reapers are the angels. 
Even as cockle therefore is 
gathered up, and burnt with 
fire : so shall it be at the end 
of the world. The son of man 
shall send his Angels, and they 
shall gather out of his kingdom 
all scandals, and them that 
work iniquity, and shall cast 
them into the furnace of fire : 
there shall be w^eeping and 
gnashing of teeth. Then shall 
the just shine as the sun, in the 
kingdom of their Father. He 
that hath ears to hear, let him 
hear. 

34. The kingdom of heaven 
is like unto a treasure hidden in 
a field. Which a man having 
found, hid it, and for joy thereof 
goeth, and selleth all that he 
hath, and buyeth that field. 



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35. Again the kingdom of 
heaven is like to a merchant 
seeking good pearls. Who 
when he had found one pearl of 
great price, went his way, and 
sold all that he had, and bought 
it. 

36. Again the kingdom of 
heaven is like to a net cast into 
the sea, and gathering togeth- 
er of all kind of fishes. Which, 
when it was filled, they drew 
out, and sitting by the shore, 
they chose out the good into 
vessels, but the bad they cast 
forth. So shall it be at the end 
of the world. The Angels shall 
go out, and shall separate the 
wicked from among the just. 
And shall cast them into the 
furnace of fire : there shall be 
weeping and gnashing of teeth. 
Have ye understood all these 
things? They say to him: 
Yes. He said unto them : 
Therefore every scribe instruct- 
ed in the kingdom of heaven, 
is like to a man that is a house- 
holder, who bringeth forth out 
of his treasure new things and 
old. 

37. (Luke 8.) Now it came 
to pass on a certain day that he 
went into a little ship with his 
disciples, and he said to them : 
Let us go over to the other 
side of the lake. And they 
launched forth. And when 
they were sailing, he slept : and 
there came down a storm of 
wind upon the lake, and they 
were filled, and were in danger. 
And they came and awaked 
him, saying: Master, we per- 
ish. But he arising, rebuked 



the wind and the rage of the 
water; and it ceased, and there 
was a calm. And he said to 
them: Where is your faith? 
Who being afraid, wondered, 
saying one to another : Who is 
this (think you) that he com- 
mandeth both the winds and 
the sea, and they obey him ? 

38. Now they sailed to the 
country of the Gerasens, which 
is over-against Galilee. And 
when he was come forth to the 
land, there met him a certain 
man who had a devil now a 
very long time, and he wore no 
clothes, neither did he abide in 
a house, but in the sepulchres. 
And when he saw Jesus, he 
fell down before him ; and cry- 
ing out with a loud voice, he 
said : What have I to do. 
with thee, Jesus, Son of the 
most high God? I beseech 
thee do not torment me. For 
he commanded the unclean 
spirit to go out of the man. 
For manj^ times it seized him, 
and he was bound with chains, 
and kept in fetters ; and break- 
ing the bonds, he was driven by 
the devil into the deserts. And 
Jesus asked him, saj'ing : What 
is thy name? But he said: 
Legion; because many devils 
were entered into him. And 
they besought him that he 
would not command them to go 
into the abyss. And there was 
there a herd of many swine 
feeding on the mountain ; and 
they besought him that he 
would suffer them to enter into 
them. And he suffered them. 
The devils therefore went out 



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of the man, and entered into 
the swine ; and the herd ran 
violently down a steep place 
into the lake, and was stifled. 
Whicli when they that fed them 
saw done, they fled, and told it 
in the city and in the villages. 
And they went out to see what 
was done ; and they came to 
Jesus, and found the man, out 
of whom the devils were de- 
parted, sitting at his feet, 
clothed, and in his right mind ; 
and they were afraid. And 
they also that had seen, told 
them how he had been healed 
from the legion. And all the 
multitude of the country of the 
Gerasens besought him to de- 
part from them ; for they were 
taken with great fear ; And he, 
going up into the ship, returned 
back again. Now the man, 
out of whom the devils were 
departed, besought him that he 
might be with him. But Jesus 
sent him away, saying : Return 
to thy house, and tell how 
great things God hath done to 
thee. And he "went through 
the whole city, publishing how 
great things Jesus had done to 
him. 

39, Now it came to pass, 
that when Jesus was returned, 
the multitude received him : for 
they were all waiting for him. 
And behold there came a man 
whose name was Jairus, and he 
was a ruler of the synagogue : 
and he fell down at the feet of 
Jesus, beseeching him that he 
would come into his house : For 
he had an only daughter, al- 
most twelve years old, and she 



was dying. And it happened 
as he went, that he was thronged 
by the multitudes. 
'40. (A. D. 31.) Now there 
was a certain woman having 
an issue of blood twelve years, 
who had bestowed all her sub- 
stance on physicians, and could 
not be healed by any. She 
came behind him, and touched 
the hem of his garment; and 
immediately the issue of her 
blood stopped. And Jesus said : 
Who is it that touched me? 
And all denying, Peter and 
they that were with him said : 
Master, the multitudes throng 
and press thee, and dost thou 
say. Who touched me? And 
Jesus said : Some body hath 
touched me ; for I know that vir- 
tue is gone out from me. And 
the woman seeing that she was 
not hid, came trembling, and 
fell down before his feet, and 
declared before all the people 
for what cause she had touched 
him, and how she was immedi- 
ately healed. But he said to 
her : Daughter, thy faith hath 
made thee whole; go thy way 
in peace. 

41. And as he was yet speak- 
ing, there cometh one to the 
ruler of the sjmagogue, saying 
to him : Thy daughter is dead, 
trouble him not. And Jesus 
hearing this word, answered the 
father of the maid : Fear not ; 
believe only, and she shall be 
safe. And when he was come 
to the house, he suffered not 
any man to go in with him, but 
Peter and James and John, and 
the father and mother of the 



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LIFE OF CHRIST. 



maiden. And all wept and 
mourned for her. But he said : 
Weep not ; the maid is not 
dead, but sleepeth. And they 
laughed him to scorn, knowing 
that she was dead. But he 
taking her by the hand, cried 
out, saying : Maid, arise. And 
her spirit returned, and she 
arose immediately. And he bid 
them give her to eat. And her 
parents were astonished, whom 
he charged to tell no man what 
was done. 

42. (Mat. 9.) Now as Jesus 
passed from thence, there fol- 
lowed him two blind men cry- 
ing out and saying, Have mere}" 
on us, Son of David. And 
when he was come to the house, 
the blind men came to him. 
And Jesus saith to them, Do 
you believe, that I can do this 
unto you? They say to him. 
Yea, Lord. Then he touched 
their e3^es, saying. According 
to your faith, be it done unto 
you. And their eyes were 
opened, and Jesus strictly 
charged them, saying. See that 
no man know this. But they 
going out, spread his fame 
abroad in all that country. 

43. Now when they were 
gone out, behold they brought 
him a dumb man, possessed 
with a devil. And after the 
devil was cast out, the dumb 
man spoke, and the multitudes 
wondered, saying. Never was 
the like seen in Israel. But 
the Pharisees said, By the 
prince of devils he casteth out 
devils. 

44. (Mark 6.) Now going 



out from thence, he went into 
his own country ; and his dis- 
ciples followed him. And when 
the sabbath was come, he began 
to teach in the synagogue : and 
many hearing him were in ad- 
miration at his doctrine, say- 
ing : How came this man by all 
these things ? and what wisdom 
is this that is given to him, 
and such might}^ works as are 
wrought by his hands? Is not 
this the carpenter, the son of 
Mary, the brother of James, 
and Joseph, and Jude, and 
Simon? are not also his sisters 
here with us ? And they were 
scandalized in regard of him. 
And Jesus said to them : A 
prophet is not without honour, 
but in his own country, and in 
his own house, and among his 
own kindred. 

45. Now he could not do 
any miracles there, only that 
he cured a few that were sick, 
la3'ing his hands upon them, 
And he wondered because of 
their unbelief, and he went 
through the villages round 
about teaching. 

46. Now he called the 
twelve ; and began to send them 
two and two, and gave them 
power over unclean spirits. 
And he commanded them that 
they should take nothing for 
the way, but a staff only : no 
scrip, no bread, nor money in 
their purse. But to be shod 
with sandals, and that they 
should not put on two coats. 
And he said to them : Where- 
soever you shall enter into an 
house, there abide till you de- 



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43 



part from that place. And 
whosoever shall not receive 
you, nor hear you ; going forth 
from thence, shake off the dust 
from your feet for a testimony 
to them. And going forth they 
preached that men should do 
penance : And they cast out 
many devils, and anointed with 
oil many tliat were sick, and 
healed them. 

47. Now king Herod heard : 
(for his name was made mani- 
fest) and he said: John the 
Baptist is risen- again from 
the dead, and therefore mighty 
works shew forth themselves in 
him. And others said: It is 
Elias. But others said : It is 
a prophet, as one of the proph- 
ets. Which Herod hearing, 
said : John whom I beheaded, 
he is risen again from the dead. 
For Herod himself had sent 
and apprehended John, and 
bound him in prison for the 
sake of Herodias the wMfe 
of Philip his brother, because 
he had married her. For John 
said to Herod : It is not lawful 
for thee to have thy brother's 
wife. Now Herodias laid snares 
for him : and was desirous to 
put him to death, and could 
not. For Herod feared John, 
knowing him to be a just and 
holy man : and kept him, and 
when he heard him, did man}'' 
things : and he heard him will- 
ingly. And when a convenient 
day was come, Herod made a 
supper for his birth-day, for 
the princes, and tribunes, and 
chief men of Galilee. And 
when the daughter of the same 



Herodias had come in, and had 
danced, and pleased Herod, and 
them that were at table with 
him, the king said to the dam- 
sel : Ask of me what thou wilt, 
and I will give it thee. And 
he swore to her : Whatsoever 
thou shalt ask I will give thee, 
though it he the half of my 
kingdom. Who when she was 
gone out, said to her mother. 
What shall I ask? But she 
said : The head of John the 
Baptist. And when she was 
come in immediately with haste 
to the king, she asked, saying : 
I will that forthwith thou give 
me in a dish, the head of John 
the Baptist. And the king 
was struck sad. Yet because 
of his oath, and because of them 
that were with him at table, he 
would not displease her : But 
sending an executioner, he com- 
manded that his head should 
be brought in a dish. And he 
beheaded him in the prison, and 
brought his head in a dish : and 
gave it to the damsel, and the 
damsel gave it to her mother. 
Which his disciples hearing 
came, and took his body, and 
laid it in a tomb. 

48. Now the apostles com- 
ing together unto Jesus, re- 
lated to him all things that 
they had done and taught. 
And he said to them: Come 
apart into a desert place, and 
rest a little. For there were 
many coming and going : and 
they had not so mu<jh as time 
to eat. And going up into a 
ship, they went into a desert 
place apart. 



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(John 6.) And a great mul- 
titude followed him, because 
they saw the miracles which he 
did on them that were diseased. 
Jesus therefore went up into a 
mountain, and there he sat with 
his disciples. Now the pasch, 
the festival day of the Jews, 
was near at hand. When Jesus 
therefore had lifted up his eyes, 
and seen, that a very great 
multitude cometh to him, he 
said to Philip : Whence shall 
w^e buy bread, that these may 
eat ? And this he said to try 
him ; for he himself knew what 
he would do. Philip answered 
him : Two hundred penny- 
worths of bread are not sutti- 
cient for them, that every one 
may take a little. One of his 
disciples, Andrew, the brother 
of Simon Peter, saith to him: 
There is a boy here that hath 
five barley loaves, and two 
fishes ; but what are these 
among so many ? Then Jesus 
said : Make the men sit down. 
Now there was much grass in 
the place. The men therefore 
sat down, in number about five 
thousand. And Jesus took the 
loaves: and when he had given 
thanks, he distributed to them 
that were sat down. In like 
manner also of the fishes, as 
much as they would. And 
when they were filled, he said 
to his disciples : Gather up the 
fragments that remain, lest 
they be lost. They gathered 
up therefore, and filled twelve 
baskets with the fragments of 
the five barley loaves, which 
remained over and above to 



them that had eaten. Now 
those men, when they had seen 
what a miracle Jesus had done, 
said : This is of a truth the 
prophet, that is to come into 
the world. Jesus therefore, 
when he knew that they would 
come to take him by force, and 
make him king, fled again into 
the mountain himself alone. 

49. Now when evening was 
come, his disciples went down 
to the sea. And when they 
had gone up into a ship, they 
went over the sea to Caphar- 
naum ; and it was now dark, 
and Jesus was not come unto 
them. And the sea arose, by 
reason of a great wind that 
blew. 

(Mat. 14.) And having dis- 
missed the multitude, Jesus 
went into a mountain alone to 
pray. And when it was even- 
ing, he was there alone. But 
the boat in the midst of the sea 
was tossed with the waves : for 
the wind was contrary. And 
in the fourth watch of the night, 
he came to them walking upon 
the sea. And they seeing him 
walking upon the sea, were 
troubled, saying : It is an ap- 
parition. And they cried out 
for fear. And immediately 
Jesus spoke to them, saying : 
Be of good heart: it is I, fear 
ye not. And Peter making an- 
swer, said : Lord, if it be thou, 
bid me come to thee upon the 
waters. And he said: Come. 
And Peter going down out of 
the boat, walked upon the water 
to come to Jesus. But seeing " 
the wind strong, he was afraid: 



LIFE OF CHRIST. 



45 



and when he began to sink, he 
cried out, sajing : Lord, save 
me. And immediate!}^ Jesus 
stretching forth his hand took 
hold of him, and said to him : 
O thou of little faith, why didst 
thou doubt? And when they 
were come up into the boat, the 
wind ceased. And they that 
were in the boat came and 
adored him, saving : Indeed 
thou art the son of God. 

(John 6.) The next day, the 
multitude that stood on the 
other side of the sea, saw that 
there was no other ship there 
but one, and that Jesus had 
not entered into the ship with 
his disciples, but that his dis- 
ciples were gone away alone. 
But other ships came in from 
Tiberias ; nigh unto the place 
where they had eaten the bread, 
the Lord giving thanks. When 
therefore the multitude saw that 
Jesus was not there, nor his dis- 
ciples, they took shipping, and 
came to Capharnaum, seeking 
for Jesus. And when thej^ had 
found him on the other side of 
the sea, they said to him : Rab- 
bi, when earnest thou hither? 
Jesus answered them, and said : 
Amen, amen, 1 say to you, you 
seek me, not because you have 
seen miracles, but because you 
did eat of the loaves, and were 
filled. 

50. Labour not for the meat 
which perisheth, but for that 
which endureth unto life ever- 
lasting, which the son of man 
will give you. For him hath 
God, the Father, sealed. They 
said therefore unto him : What 



shall we do, that we may work 
the works of God ? Jesus an- 
swered, and said to them : This 
is the work of God, that you 
believe in him whom he hath 
sent. They said therefore to 
him : W^hat sign therefore dost 
thou shew, that we may see, 
and may believe thee? What 
dost thou work ? Our Fathers 
did eat manna in the desert, as 
it is written : He gave them 
bread from heaven to eat. Then 
Jesus said to them : Amen, 
amen , I say to you ; Moses gave 
you not bread from heaven, but 
my Father giveth you the true 
bread from heaven. For the 
bread of God is that which 
Cometh down from heaven, and 
giveth life to the world. They 
said therefore unto him : Lord, 
give us alwa3's this bread. And 
Jesus said to them : I am the 
bread of life : he that cometh 
to me shall not hunger: and he 
that believeth in me shall never 
thirst. But I said unto j^ou, 
that you also have seen me, and 
you believe not. All that the 
Father giveth to me shall come 
to me ; and him that cometh to 
me, I will not cast out. Be- 
cause I came down from heaven, 
not to do my own will, but the 
will of him that sent me. Now 
this is the will of the Father 
who sent me : that of all that 
he hath given me, I should lose 
nothing ; but should raise it up 
again in the last day. And 
this is the will of my Father 
that sent me : that every one 
who seeth the Son, and be- 
lieveth in him, may have life 



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everlasting, and I will raise him 
up in the last day. The Jews 
therefore murmured at him, be- 
cause he had said : I am the 
living bread which came down 
from heaven. And they said: 
Is not this Jesus, the son of 
Joseph , whose father and mother 
we know ? How then saith he, 
I came down from heaven ? 
Jesus therefore answered, and 
said to them : Murmur not 
among yourselves. No man can 
come to me, except the Father, 
who hath sent me, draw him ; 
and I will raise him up in the 
last day. It is written in the 
prophets : And they shall all he 
taught of God, Every one that 
hath heard of the Father, and 
hath learned, cometh to me. 
Not that any man hath seen 
the Father; but he who is of 
God, he hath seen the Father. 
Amen, amen, I say unto you : 
He that believeth in me, hath 
everlasting life. 

51. (A. D. 31.) I am the 
bread of life. Your fathers did 
eat manna in the desert, and 
are dead. This is the bread 
which cometh down from heav- 
en ; that if any man eat of it, 
he may not die. I am the liv- 
ing bread which came down 
fiom heaven. If any man eat 
of this bread, he shall live for 
ever ; and the bread that I will 
give, is my flesh, for the life of 
the world. The Jews therefore 
strove among themselves, say- 
ing : How can this man give us 
his flesh to eat? Then Jesus 
said to them : Amen, amen, I 
say unto you : Except you eat 



the flesh of the son of man, and 
drink his blood, you shall not 
have life in 3^ou. He that eat- 
eth my flesh, and drinketii my 
blood, hath everlasting life: and 
I will raise him up in the last 
day. For my flesh is meat in- 
deed : and my blood is drink 
indeed. He that eateth my 
flesh, and drinketh my blood, 
abideth in me, and I in him. 
As the living Father hath sent 
me, and I live by the Father ; 
so he that eateth me, the same 
also shall live by me. This is 
the bread that came down from 
heaven. Not as your fathers 
did eat manna, and are dead. 
He that eateth this bread, shall 
live for ever. These things he 
said, teaching in the synagogue, 
in Capharnaum. Many there- 
fore of his disciples, hearing it, 
said: This saying is hard, and 
who can hear it? But Jesus, 
knowing in himself, that his 
disciples murmured at this, said 
to them : Doth this scandalize 
you ? If then 3^ou > shall see 
the son of man ascend up where 
he was before ? It is the spirit 
that quickeneth : the flesh profit- 
eth nothing. The words that I 
have spoken to you, are spirit 
and life. But there are some 
of you that believe not. For 
Jesus knew from the beginnings 
who they were that did not be- 
lieve, and who he was, that 
would betray him. And he 
said : Therefore did I say to 
3 ou, that no man can come to 
me, unless it be given him by 
my Father. After this many 
of his disciples went back ; and 



LIFE OF CHRIST. 



47 



walked no more with bim. 
Then Jesus said to the twelve : 
Will you also go away ? And 
Simon Peter answered him : 
Lord, to whom shall we go? 
thou hast the words of eternal 
life. And we have believed and 
have known, that thou art the 



Christ, the Son of God. Jesus 
answered them : Have not I 
chosen 3^ou twelve ; and one of 
you is a devil ? Now he meant 
Judas Iscariot, the son of Si- 
mon : for this same was about 
to betray him, whereas he was 
one of the twelve. 



CHAPTER Y. 



SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS. 



1. (John 7. A. D. 32.) After 
these things Jesus walked in 
Galilee ; for he would not walk 
in Judea, because the Jews 
sought to kill him. 

(Mark 6.) And when they 
had passed over, they came into 
the land of Genezareth, and set 
to the shore. And when they 
were gone out of the ship, im- 
mediately they knew him : And 
running through that whole 
country, they began to carry 
about in beds those that were 
sick, where they heard he was. 
And whithersoever he entered, 
into towns or into villages or 
cities, they laid the sick in the 
streets, and besought him that 
they might touch but the hem 
of his garment : and as many as 
touched him were made whole. 

2. (Mark. 7.) Now there 
assembled together unto him 
the Pharisees and some of the 
scribes, coming from Jerusa- 
lem. And when they had seen 
some of his disciples eat bread 



with common, that is, with un- 
washed hands, the}" found fault. 
For the Pharisees, and all the 
Jews eat not without often 
washing their hands, holding 
the tradition of the ancients : 
And when they come from the 
market, unless they be washed, 
they eat not : and many other 
things there are that have been 
delivered to them to observe, 
the washings of cups and of 
pots, and of brazen vessels, and 
of beds. And the Pharisees 
and scribes asked him : Y^hy 
do not th}^ disciples walk ac- 
cording to the tradition of the 
ancients, but they eat bread 
with common hands? But he 
j answering, said to them : Well 
did Isaias prophesy of you 
hypocrites, as it is written : 
This people honouretk me with 
their lips, but their heart is far 
from me. And in vain do they 
ivorship vie, teaching doctrines 
and precepts of men. For leav- 
ing the commandment of God, 



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you hold the tradition of men, 
the washings of pots and of 
cups : and many otlier things 
you do like to these. And he 
said to tbem : Well do you 
make void the commandment 
of God, that you may keep your 
own tradition. For Moses said : 
Honour thy father and thy 
mother; and He that shall curse 
father or mother^ dying let him 
die. But you say : If a man 
shall say to his father or mother, 
Corban (which is a gift,) what- 
soever is from me, shall profit 
thee. And farther you suffer 
him not to do anything for his 
father or mother, making void 
the word of God by your own 
tradition, which you have given 
forth. And many other such 
like things you do. 

3. Now calling again the 
multitude unto him, he said to 
thera : Hear ye me all and 
understand. There is nothing 
from without a man that enter- 
ing into him, can defile him. 
But the things which come 
from a man, those are they that 
defile a man. If any man have 
ears to hear, let him hear. And 
when he was come into the 
house from the multitude, his 
disciples asked him the para- 
ble. And he saith to them : 
So are you also without knowl- 
edge? understand you not that 
every thing from without, enter- 
ing into a man cannot defile 
him : Because it entereth not 
into his heart, but goeth into 
the belly, and goeth out into 
the privy, purging all meats? 
But he said that the things 



which come out from a man, 
they defile a man. For from 
within out of the heart of men 
proceed evil thoughts, adul- 
teries, fornications, murders, 
Thefts, covetousness, wicked- 
ness, deceit, lasciviousness, an 
evil eye, blasphemy, pride, fool- 
ishness. All these evil things 
come from within, and defile a 
man. 

4. Now rising from thence 
he went into the coasts of Tyre 
and Sidon : and entering into a 
house, he would that no man 
should know it, and he could 
not be hid. For a woman as 
soon as she heard of him, whose 
daughter had an unclean spirit, 
came in and fell down at his 
feet. For the woman was a 
Gentile, a Syrophenician born. 
And she besought him that he 
would cast forth the devil out 
of her daughter. Who said to 
her : Suflfer first the children to 
be filled : for it is not good to 
take the bread of the children, 
and cast it to the dogs. But 
she answered and said to him : 
Yea, Lord ; for the whelps also 
eat under the table of the 
crumbs of the children. And 
he said to her : For this saying 
go thy way, the devil is gone 
out of thy daughter. And 
when she was come into her 
house, she found the girl lying 
upon the bed, and that the 
devil was gone out. 

5. (A. D. 32.) But again 
going out of the coasts of Tyre, 
he came by Sidon to the sea of 
Galilee, through the midst of the 
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bring to him one deaf and dumb ; 
and they besought him that he 
would lay his hand upon him. 
And taking him from the multi- 
tude apart, he put his fingers into 
his ears, and spitting, he touched 
his tongue: And looking up 
to heaven, he groaned, and said 
to him: Ephpheta, which is. 
Be thou opened. And imme- 
diately his ears were opened 
and the string of his tongue 
was loosed, and he spoke right. 
And he charged them that they 
should tell no man. But the 
more he charged them, so much 
the more a great deal did they 
publish it. And so much the 
more did they wonder, say- 
ing : He hath done all things 
well; he hath made both the 
deaf to hear, and the dumb to 
speak. 

6. (Mat. 15.) Now when 
Jesus had passed away from 
thence, he came nigh the sea 
of Galilee. And going up into 
a mountain, he sat there. And 
there came to him great multi- 
tudes, having with them the 
dumb, the blind, the lame, the 
maimed, and many others: and 
they cast them down at his 
feet, and he healed them : So 
that the multitudes marvelled 
seeing the dumb speak, the 
lame walk, the blind see : and 
tbey glorified the God of Israel. 
And Jesus called together his 
disciples, and said : I have com- 
passion on the multitudes, be- 
cause they continue with me 
now three days, and have not 
what to eat, and I will not send 
them away fasting, lest they 



faint in the way. And the dis- 
ciples say unto him : Whence 
then should we have so many 
loaves in the desert, as to fill so 
great a multitude? And Jesus 
said to them : how many loaves 
have you? But they said: 
Seven, and a few little fishes. 
And he commanded the multi- 
tude to sit down upon the 
ground. And taking the seven 
loaves and the fishes, and giv- 
ing thanks, he brake, and gave 
to his disciples, and the dis- 
ciples gave to the people. And 
the}'' did all eat, and had their 
fill. And they took up seven 
baskets full, of what remained 
of the fragments. And they 
that did eat, were four thou- 
sand men, beside children and 
women. And having dismissed 
the multitude, he went up into 
a boat, and came into the coasts 
of Magedan. 

7. (Mat. 16.) Now there 
came to him the Pharisees and 
Sadducees tempting : and they 
asked him to shew them a sign 
from heaven. But he answered 
and said to them : When it is 
evening, j^ou say. It will be fair 
weather, for the sky is red. 
And in the morning : To-day 
there will he a storm, for the 
sky is red and lowering. You 
know then how to discern the 
face of the sky : and can you 
not know the signs of the 
times ? A wicked and adulter- 
ous generation seeketh after a 
sign : and a sign shall not be 
given it, but the sign of Jonas 
the prophet. And leaving them, 
he went up again into the ship, 



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and passed to the other side of 
the water. 

8. Now when his disciples 
were come over the water, they 
had forg^otten to take bread. 
Who said to them : Take heed 
and beware of the leaven of the 
Pharisees and Sadducees. But 
they thought within themselves, 
saj^ing : Because we have taken 
no bread. And Jesus knowing 
it, said : Why do you think 
within yourselves, ye of little 
faith, for that you have no 
bread ? Do you not yet under- 
stand, neither do you remem- 
ber the five loaves among five 
thousand men, and how many 
baskets you took up ? Nor the 
seven loaves among four thou- 
sand men, and how many bask- 
ets you took up ? Why do you 
not understand that it was not 
concerning bread I said to you : 
Beware of the leaven of the 
Pharisees and Sadducees ? Then 
they understood that he said 
not that they should beware of 
the leaven of bread, but of the 
doctrine of the Pharisees and 
Sadducees. 

9. (Mark 8.) Now they 
came to Bethsaida; and they 
bring to him a blind man, and 
they besought him that he 
would touch him. And taking 
the blind man by the hand, he 
led him out of the town ; and 
spitting upon his eyes, laying 
his hands on him, he asked him 
if he saw any thing. And look- 
ing up, he said : 1 see men as 
it were trees, walking. After 
that again he laid his hands 
upon his eyes, and he began to 



see, and was restored, so that 
he saw all things clearly. And 
he sent him into his house, say- 
ing : Go into thy house, and if 
thou enter into the town, tell 
nobody. 

10. (Mat. 16. A. D. 32.) Now 
Jesus came into the quarters 
of Cesarea Philippi: and he 
asked his disciples, sa3ing : 
Whom do men say tbat the son 
of man is? But they said : 
Some John the Baptist, and 
other some Elias, and others 
Jeremias,or one of the prophets. 
Jesus saith to them: But whom 
do 3^ou say that I am ? Simon 
Peter answered and said : Thou 
art Christ, the Son of the living 
God. And Jesus answering, 
said to him : Blessed art thou, 
Simon Bar-Jona : because flesh 
and blood hath not revealed it 
to thee, but my father who is 
in heaven. And I say to thee: 
That thou art Peter; and upon 
this rock 1 will build my church, 
and the gates of hell shall not 
prevail against it. And I will 
give to thee the keys of the 
kingdom of heaven. And what- 
soever thou shalt bind upon 
earth, it shall be bound also in 
heaven : and whatsoever thou 
shalt loose on earth, it shall be 
loosed also in heaven. Then 
he commanded his disciples, 
that they should tell no one 
that he was Jesus the Christ. 

11. From that time Jesus 
began to shew to his disciples, 
that he must go to Jerusalem, 
and suffer many things from 
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death, and the third day rise 
again. And Peter taking him, 
began to rebuke him, saying: 
Lord, be it far from thee, this 
shall not be unto thee. Who 
turning said to Peter: Go be- 
hind me, satan, thou art a scan- 
dal unto me : because thou 
savourest not the things that 
are of God, but the things that 
are of men. Then Jesus said 
to his disciples : If any man 
will come after me, let him 
deny himself, and take up his 
cross, and follow me. For he 
that will save his life, shall lose 
it: and he that shall lose his 
life for my sake, shall find it. 
For what doth it profit a man, 
if he gain the whole world, 
and suffer the loss of his own 
soul? Or what exchange shall 
a man give for his soul? For 
the son of man shall come in 
the glory of his Father with his 
Angels : and then will he ren- 
der to every man according to 
his works. Amen I say to you, 
there are some of them that 
stand here, that shall not taste 
death, till they see the son of 
man coming in his kingdom. 

12. (Mat. 17.) Now after 
six da^^s Jesus taketh unto him 
Peter and James, and John his 
brother, and bringeth them up 
into a high mountain apart : 
And he was transfigured before 
them. And his face did shine 
as the sun : and his garments 
became white as snow. And 
behold there appeared to them 
Moses and EUas talking with 
him. And Peter answering, 
said to Jesus : Lord, it is good 



j for us to be here: if thou wilt, 
let us make here three taber- 
nacles, one for thee, and one for 
Moses, and one for Elias. And 
as he was yet speaking, behold 
a bright cloud overshaded them. 
And lo a voice out of the cloud, 
saying : This is my beloved Son, 
in whom I am well pleased : 
hear ye him. And the disciples 
hearing, fell upon their face, 
and were very much afraid. 
And Jesus came and touched 
them : and said to them. Arise, 
and fear not. And they lifting 
up their eyes saw no one but 
only Jesus. And as they came 
down from the mountain, Jesus 
charged them, saying : Tell the 
vision to no man, till the son 
of man be risen from the dead. 
And his disciples asked him, 
saying : Why then do the 
Scribes say that Elias must 
come first? But he answering 
said to them : Elias indeed shall 
come, and restore all things. 
But I say to you, that Elias is 
already come, and they knew 
him not, but have done unto 
him whatsoever they had a 
mind. So also the Son of man 
shall suffer from them. Then 
the disciples understood, that 
he had spoken to them of John 
the Baptist. 

13. (Luke 9. Mat. 17.) Now 
it came to pass the day follow- 
ing when they came down from 
the mountain, coming to his 
disciples, he saw a great multi- 
tude about them, and the 
scribes disputing with them. 
And presently all the people 
seeing Jesus, were astonished 



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and struck with fear ; and run- 
ning to him, they saluted him. 
And he asked them : What do 
you question about among you ? 
And one of the multitude, an- 
swering, said : Master, I have 
brought my son to thee, having 
a dumb spirit, Who, whereso- 
ever he taketh him, dasheth 
him, and he foameth, and gnash- 
eth with the teeth, aud pineth 
away ; and I spoke to thy dis- 
ciples to cast him out, and they 
could not. Who answering 
them, said : O incredulous 
generation, how long shall I be 
with you ? how long shall I 
suffer you ? bring him unto me. 
And they brought him. And 
when he had seen him, imme- 
diately the spirit troubled him ; 
and being thrown down upon 
the ground, he rolled about 
foaming. And he asked his 
father : How long time is it 
since this hath happened unto 
him ? But he said : From his 
infanc}^ : And often times hath 
he cast him into the fire and 
into waters to destroy him. 
But if thou canst do any thing, 
help us, having compassion on 
us. And Jesus saith to him : 
If thou canst believe, all things 
are possible to him that believ- 
eth. And immediately the 
father of the boy crying out, 
with tears said : I do believe, 
Lord : help my unbelief. And 
when Jesus saw the multitude 
running together, he threatened 
the unclean spirit, saying to 
him : Deaf and dumb spirit, I 
command thee, go out of him ; 
and enter not any more into 



him. And crying out, and 
greatly tearing him, he went 
out of him, and he became as 
dead, so that many said : He 
is dead. But Jesus taking him 
b}^ the hand, lifted him up ; and 
he arose. And when he was 
come into the house, his disci- 
ples secretly asked him : Why 
could not we cast him out? 
And he said to them : This 
kind can go out hy nothing, 
but by prayer and fasting. 

14. Now departing from 
thence, they passed through 
Galilee, and he would not that 
any man should know it. And 
he taught his disciples, and said 
to them : The son of man shall 
be betraj^ed into the hands of 
men, and they shall kill him; 
and after that he is killed, he 
shall rise again the third day. 
But they understood not the 
word, and they were afraid to 
ask him. 

15. Now when they were 
come to Capharnaum, they that 
received the didrachmas, came 
to Peter and said to him : 
Doth not your master pay the 
didrachmas? He said: yes. 
And when he was come into 
the house, Jesus prevented 
him, saying: What is thy 
opinion, Simon ? The kings of 
the earth, of whom do they re- 
ceive tribute or custom ? of 
their own children, or of stran- 
gers ? And he said : Of stran- 
gers. Jesus said to him : 
Then the children are free. 
But that we ma}^ not scandal- 
ize them, go to the sea, and 
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53 



which shall first come up, take : 
and when thou hast opened its 
mouth, thou shalt find a stater: 
take that, and give it to them 
for me and thee. 

16. (Mark 9.) Now they 
came to Capharnaura. And 
when they were in the house, 
he asked them : What did you 
treat of in the way ? But they 
held their pqace, for in the way 
they had disputed among them- 
selves, which of them should 
be tlie greatest. And sitting 
down, he called the twelve, and 
saith to them : If any man de- 
sire to be first, he shall be the 
last of all, and the minister of 
all. And taking a child, he 
set him in the midst of them. 
Whom when he had embraced, 
he saith to them : Whosoever 
shall receive one such child as 
this in my name, receiveth me. 
And whosoever shall receive 
me, receiveth not me, but him 
that sent me. 

n. John answered him, 
saying: Master, we saw one 
casting out devils in thy name, 
who followeth not us, and we 
forbade him. But Jesus said : 
Do not forbid him. For there 
is no man that doth a miracle 
in my name, and can soon 
speak ill of me. For he that 
is not against you, is for you. 

18. For whosoever shall give 
you to drink a cup of water in 
my name, because you belong 
to Christ: Amen I say to you, 
be shall not lose his reward. 

19. And whosoever shall 
scandalize one of these little 
ones that believe in me ; it were 



better for him that a millstone 
were hanged about his neck, 
and he were cast into the sea. 
And if thy hand scandalize 
thee, cut it off: it is better for 
thee to enter into life, maimed, 
than having two hands to go 
into hell, into unquenchable 
fire : Where their worm dieth 
not, and the fire is not extin- 
guished. And if thy foot scan- 
dalize thee, cut it off. It is 
better for thee to enter lame in- 
to life everlasting, than having 
two feet, to be cast into the hell 
of unquenchable fire: Where 
their worm dieth not, and the 
fire is not extinguished. And 
if thy eye scandalize thee, 
pluck it out. It is better for 
thee with one eye to enter into 
the kingdom of God, than hav- 
ing two eyes to be cast into the 
hell of fire : Where their worm 
dieth not, and the fire is not 
extinguished. For every one 
shall be salted with fire: and 
every victim shall be salted 
with salt. Salt is good. But 
if the salt become unsavoury ; 
wherewith will you season it ? 
Have salt in you, and have 
peace among you. 

20. (John 7. A. D. 32.) 
Now the Jews' feast of taberna- 
cles was at hand. And his breth- 
ren said to him: Pass from 
hence, and gointo Judea; that 
thy disciples also may see thy 
works which thou dost. For 
there is no man that doth any 
thing in secret, and he himself 
seeketh to be known openly. 
If thou do these things, mani- 
fest thyself to the world. For 



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neither did his brethren believe 
in him. Then Jesus said to 
them: My time is not ^^et 
come; but your time is always 
ready. The world cannot hate 
you ; but me it hateth : because 
I give testimony of it, that the 



works thereof are evil. Go 
you up to this festival day, 
but I go not up to this festival 
day: because my time is not 
accomplished. When he had 
said these things, he himself 
staid in Galilee. 



CHAPTER YI. 



BEHOLD WE GO UP TO JERUSALEM. 



1. (Luke 9.) And it came 
to pass, when the days of his 
assumption were accomplish- 
ing, that he steadfastly set his 
face to go to Jerusalem. And he 
sent messengers before his face ; 
and going, they entered into a 
city of the Samaritans, to pre- 
pare for him. And they re- 
ceived him not, because his face 
w^as of one going to Jerusalem. 
And when his disciples James 
and John had seen this, the}' 
said: Lord, wilt thou that we 
command fire to come down 
from heaven, and consume 
them? And turning, he re- 
buked them, saying : You 
know not of what spirit 3'ou 
are. The son of man came not 
to destroy souls, but to save. 
And they went into another 
town. 

2. Now it came to pass, as 
they walked in the way, that a 
certain man said to him : I 
will follow thee whithersoever 
thou goest. Jesus said to hin^ : 
the foxes have holes, ap^J the 



birds of the air nests ; but the 
son of man hath not where to 
lay his head. 

3. (A. D. 32.) But he said 
to another : Follow me. And 
he said : Lord, suffer me first 
to go, and to hwvy my father. 
And Jesus said to him : Let 
the dead bury their dead : but 
go thou, and preach the king- 
dom of God. 

4. And another said : I 
will follow thee. Lord ; but let 
me first take my leave of them 
that are at my house. Jesus 
said to him : No man putting 
his hand to the plough, and 
looking back, is fit for the king- 
dom of God. 

5. (Luke 10.) Now after 
these things the Lord appoint- 
ed also other seventy-two: and 
he sent them two and two be- 
fore his face into every city 
and place whither he himself 
was to come. And he said to 
them: The harvest indeed is 
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55 



Lord of the harvest, that he 
send labourers into his harvest. 
Go : Behokl I send you as 
lambs among wolves. Carry 
neither purse, nor scrip, nor 
shoes; and salute no man by 
the wa3^ Into whatsoever 
house you enter, first say : 
Peace be to this house. And 
if the son of peace be there, 
your peace shall rest upon him ; 
but if not, it shall return to 
you. And in the same house, 
remain, eating and drinking 
such things as they have : for 
the labourer is worthy of his 
hire. Remove not from house 
to house. And into what city 
soever you enter, and they re- 
ceive you, eat such things as 
are set before you. And heal 
the sick that are therein, and 
say to them : The kingdom of 
God is come nigh unto 3^ou. 
But into whatsoever city you 
enter, and they receive 3^ou not, 
going forth into the streets 
thereof, say : Even the very 
xlust of your city that cleaveth 
to us, we wipe off against you. 
Yet know this, that the king- 
dom of God is at hand. I say 
to you, it shall be more tolera- 
ble at that day for Sodom, than 
for that cit3% Wo to thee, 
Corozam, wo to thee, Bethsaida. 
For if in Tyre and Sidon had 
been wrought the mighty works 
that have been wrought in 3'ou, 
they would have done penance 
long ago, sitting in sackcloth 
and ashes. But it shall be more 
tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at 
the judgment, than for 3'ou. 
And thou, Capharnaum, which 



art exalted unto heaven, thou 
shalt be thrust down to hell. 
He that heareth you, heareth 
me ; and he that despiseth you, 
despiseth me; and he that de- 
spiseth me, despiseth him that 
sent me. 

6. (Mat. 11.) At that time 
Jesus answered and said : I 
confess to thee, Father, Lord 
of heaven and earth, because 
thou hast hid these things from 
the wise and prudent, and hast 
revealed them to little ones. 
Yea, Father; for so hath it 
seemed good in thy sight. All 
things are delivered to me by 
my Father.' And no one know- 
eth the Son, but the Father: 
neither doth any one know the 
Father, but the Son, and he to 
whom it shall please the Son to 
reveal him. Come to me, all 
j'ou that labour, and are bur- 
dened, and I will refresh 3'ou. 
Take up my yoke upon you, 
and learn of me, because I am 
meek, and humble of heart: 
and you shall find rest to your 
souls. For my j^oke is sweet 
and vny burden light. 

7. (Luke 10.) And behold 
a certain lawj'er stood up 
tempting him, and saying, 
Master, what must I do to 
possess eternal life ? But he 
said to him : What is written 
in the law ? how readest thou ? 
He answering, said: Thou 
shall love the Lord thy God 
with thy whole hearty and icith 
thy whole soul^ and with all thy 
strength, and with all thy mind : 
and thy neighbour as thyself. 
And he said to him : Thou 



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hast answered right : this do, 
and thou shalt live. But he 
willing to justify himself, said 
to Jesus : And who is my 
neighbour? And Jesus an- 
swering, said : A certain man 
went down from Jerusalem to 
Jericho, and fell among robbers, 
who also stripped him, and hav- 
ing wounded him went away 
leaving him half dead. And 
it chanced, that a certain priest 
went down the same way : and 
seeing him passed by. In like 
manner also a Levite, when he 
was near the place and saw 
him, passed by. But a certain 
Samaritan being on his journey, 
came near him ; and seeing 
him, was moved with compas- 
sion. And going up to him, 
bound up his wounds, pouring 
in oil and wine : and setting 
him upon his own beast, 
brought him to an inn, and 
took care of him. And the 
next day he took out two 
pence, and gave to the host, 
and said: Take care of him; 
and whatsoever thou shalt 
spend over and above, I, at m}^ 
return, will repay thee. Which 
of these three, in thy opinion, 
was neighbour to him that fell 
among the robbers? But he 
said : He that shewed mercy 
to him. And Jesus said to 
him : Go, and do thou in like 
manner. 

8. Now it came to pass as 
they went, that he entered into 
a certain town : and a certain 
woman named Martha, received 
him into her house. And she 
had a sister called Mary, who 



sitting also at the Lord's feet, 
heard his word. But Martha 
was busy about much serving. 
Who stood and said : Lord, 
hast thou no care that my sis- 
ter hath left me alone to serve ? 
speak to her therefore, that she 
help me. And the Lord an- 
swering, said to her : Martha, 
Martha, thou art careful, and 
art troubled about many things. 
But one thing is necessary. 
Mary has chosen the best part, 
which shall not be taken away 
from her. 

9. (John 7.) The Jews 
therefore sought him on the 
festival day, and said : Where 
is he ? And there was much 
murmuring among the multi- 
tude concerning him. For 
some said : He is a good man. 
And others said: No, but he 
seduceth the people. Yet no 
man spoke openly of him, for 
fear of the Jews. 

10. Now about the midst 
of the feast, Jesus went up in- 
to the temple, and taught. 
And the Jews wondered, say- 
ing : How doth this man know 
letters, having never learned ? 
Jesus answered them, and said: 
My doctrine is not mine, but 
his that sent me. If any man 
will do the will of him ; he shall 
know of the doctrine, whether 
it be of God, or whether I speak 
of myself. He that speaketh 
of himself, seeketh his own 
glory : but he that seeketh the 
glory of him that sent him, he 
is true, and there is no injustice 
in him. Did not Moses give 
you the law, and yet none of 



LIFE OF CHRIST. 



you keepeth the law. Why 
seek you to kill me ? The mul- 
titude answered, and said : 
Thou hast a devil; who seek- 
eth to kill thee ? Jesus an- 
swered, and said to them : One 
work I have done ; and you all 
wonder : Therefore, Moses gave 
you circumcision, (not because 
it is of Moses, but of the 
fathers ;) and on the sabbath 
day you circumcise a man. If 
a man receive circumcision on 
the sabbath day, that the law 
of Moses may not be broken ; 
are you angry at me because I 
have healed the whole man on 
the sabbath day ? Judge not 
according to the appearance, 
but judge just judgment. Some 
therefore of Jerusalem said : 
Is not this he whom they seek 
to kill ? And behold, he speak- 
eth openly, and they say noth- 
ing to him. Have the rulers 
known for a truth, that this is 
the Christ? But we know 
this man, whence he is: but 
when the Christ comet h, no 
man knoweth whence he is. 
Jesus therefore cried out in the 
temple, teaching, and saying : 
You both know me, and you 
know whence I am : and I am 
not come of myself; but he 
that sent me, is true, whom 
you know not. I know him, 
because I am from him, and he 
hath sent me. They sought 
therefore to apprehend him : 
and no man laid hands on him, 
because his hour was not yet 
come. But of the people many 
believed in him, and said: 
When the Christ cometh, shall 



he do more miracles, than these 
which this man doth ? The 
Pharisees heard the people 
murmuring these things con- 
cerning him : and the rulers 
and Pharisees sent ministers 
to apprehend him. Jesus there- 
fore said to them : Yet a little 
while I am with 3'ou : and then 
I go to him that sent me. You 
shall seek me, and shall not 
find me: and where I am, 
t hither you cannot come. The 
Jews therefore said among 
themselves: Whither will he 
go, that we shall not find him ? 
will he go unto the dispersed 
among the gentiles, and teach 
the gentiles? What is this 
saving that he hath said : You 
shall seek me, and shall not 
find me ; and where I am, you 
cannot come ? 

11. And on the last, and 
great day of the festivity, 
Jesus stood and cried, saying : 
If any man thirst, let him come 
to me, and drink. He that be- 
lieveth in me, as the scripture 
saith, Out of his belly shall flow 
rivers of living water. Now 
this he said of the spirit which 
they should receive, who be- 
lieved in him : for as yet the 
spirit was not given, because 
Jesus was not yet glorified. 

12. Of that multitude 
therefore, when they had heard 
these words of his, some said : 
This is the prophet indeed. 
Others said: this is the Christ. 
But some said: Doth the 
Christ come out of Galilee? 
Doth not the scripture say : 
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of David, and from Bethlehem 
the town where David was? 
So there arose a dissension 
among the people because of 
him. And some of them would 
have apprehended him : but no 
man laid hands upon him. The 
ministers therefore came to the 
chief priests and the Pharisees. 
And they said to them : Why 
have you not brought him ? 
The ministers answered : Never 
did man speak like this man. 
The Pharisees therefore an- 
swered them : Are you also 
seduced ? Hath any one of the 
rulers believed in him, or of the 
Pharisees. But this multitude, 
that knoweth not the law, are 
accursed. Nicodemus said to 
them, (he that came to him by 
night, who was one of them :) 
Doth our law judge any man, 
unless it first hear him, and 
know what he doth ? They 
answered, and said to him : 
Art thou also a Galilean ? 
Searcli the scriptures, and see, 
that out of Galilee a prophet 
riseth not. And every man 
returned to liis own house. 

13. (A. D. 32. John 8.) 
Now Jesus went unto mount Oli- 
vet. And early in the morning 
he came again into the temple, 
and all the people came to him, 
and sitting down he taught 
them. And the scribes and 
Pharisees bring unto him a 
woman taken in adultery : and 
they set her in the midst, and 
said to him : Master, this 
woman was even now taken in 
adultery. Now Moses in the 
law commanded us to stone 



such a one. But what sayest 
thou ? And this they said 
tempting him, that they might 
accuse. But Jesus bowing him- 
self down, wrote with his fin- 
ger on the ground. When 
therefore they continued asking 
him, he lifted up hi^iself, and 
said to them : He that is with- 
out sin among you, let him first 
cast a stone at her. And asfain 
stooping down, he wrote on 
the ground. But they hearing 
this^ went out one by one, be- 
ginning at the eldest. And 
Jesus alone remained, and the 
woman standing in the midst. 
Then Jesus lifting up himself, 
said to her: Woman, where 
are they that accused thee? 
Hath no man condemned thee? 
Who said: No man. Lord. 
And Jesus said : Neither will 
I condemn thee. Go, and now 
sin no more. 

14. Again therefore, Jesus 
spoke to them, saying : I am 
the light of the world: He 
that followeth me, walketh not 
in darkness, but shall have the 
lio^ht of life. The Pharisees 
therefore said to him: Thou 
givest testimony of th3'self: 
thy testimony is not true. 
Jesus answered, and said to 
them : Although I give testi- 
mony of myself, my testimony 
is true : for I know whence I 
came, and whither I go : but 
you know not whence I come, 
or whither I go. You judge 
according to the flesh : I judge 
not any man. And if I do 
judge, my judgment is true: 
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and the Father that sent me. 
And in your law it is written, 
that the testimony of two men 
is true. I am one that give 
testimony of myself: and the 
Father that sent me giveth tes- 
timony of me. They said 
therefore to him : Where is 
thy Father ? Jesus answered ; 
Neither me do you know, nor 
my Father : if you did know 
me, perhaps you would know 
my Father also. These words 
Jesus spoke in the treasury, 
teaching in the temple : and no 
man laid hands on him, because 
his hour was not 3- et come. 

15. Again therefore Jesus 
said to them : I go, and you 
shall seek me, and you shall 
die in your sin. Whither I go, 
you cannot come. The Jews 
therefore said : Will he kill 
himself, because he said : 
Whither I go, you cannot 
come ? And he said to them : 
You are from beneath, I am 
from above. You are of this 
world, I am not of this worhl. 
Therefore I said to you, that 
you shall die in your sins. For 
if you believe not that I am he, 
you shall die in your sin. They 
said therefore to him : Who 
art thou ? Jesus said to them : 
The beginning, who also speak 
unto you. Many things I have 
to speak, and to judge of you. 
But he that sent me, is true : 
and the things I have heard of 
him, these same I speak in the 
world. And they understood 
not, that he called God his 
Father. 

16. Jesus therefore said to 



them : When 3T)U shall have 
lifted up the son of man, then 
shall you know, that I am he, 
and that I do nothing of my- 
self, but as the Father hath 
taught me, these things I speak : 
And he that sent me, is with 
me, and he hath not left me 
alone : for I do always the 
things that please him. When 
he spoke these things, many 
believed in him. 

n. Then Jesus said to those 
Jews, who believed him : If 
you continue in my word, 3^ou 
shall be my disciples indeed. 
And you shall know the truth, 
and the truth shall make you 
free. They answered him ; 
We are the seed of Abraham, 
and we have never been slaves 
to any man : how sayest thou : 
you shall be free? Jesus an- 
swered them : Amen, amen, I 
say unto 3'ou : that whosoever 
committeth sin, is the servant 
of sin. Now the servant abid- 
eth not in the house for ever ; 
but the son abideth for ever. 
If therefore the son shall make 
3^ou free, you shall be free in- 
deed. I know that 3^ou are the 
children of Abraham : but you 
seek to kill me, because my 
word hath no place in you. I 
speak that which I have seen 
with my Father: and you do 
the things that 3'ou have seen 
with your father. They an- 
swered, and said to him : Abra- 
ham is our father. Jesus saith 
to them ! If you be the chil- 
dren of Abraham, do the works 
of Abraham. But now you 
seek to kill me, a man who 



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have spoken the truth to you, 
which I have heard of God. 
This Abraham did not. You 
do the worlvs of your father. 
Tliey said therefore to him ; 
We are not born of fornication : 
We liave one Father, even God. 
Jesus therefore said to them : 
if God were your father, you 
would indeed love me. For 
from God I proceeded, and 
came ; for I came not of my- 
self, but he sent me : Wliy do 
you not know my speech? Be- 
cause you cannot hear xxiy word. 
You are of your father the 
devil, and the desires of your 
father you will do. He was a 
murderer from the beginning, 
and he stood not in the truth ; 
because truth is not in him. 
When he speaketh a lie, he 
speaketh of his own : for he is 
a liar, and the father thereof. 
But if I say the truth, you be- 
lieve me not. Which of you 
shall convince me of sin ? If I 
say the truth to you, why do 
you not believe me ? He that 
is of God, heareth the words 
of God. Therefore you hear 
them not, because you are not 
of God. The Jews therefore 
answered, and said to him : Do 
not we say well that thou art a 
Samaritan, and hast a devil? 
Jesus answered : I have not a 
devil : but I honour my Father, 
and you have dishonoured me. 
But I seek not my own glory : 
there is one that seeketh and 
judgeth. 

18. Amen, amen, I say to 
you : If any man keep my 
word, he shall not see death 



for ever. The Jews therefore 
said : Now we know that thou 
hast a devil. Abraham is dead, 
and the prophets ; and thou 
sayest : If any man keep my 
word, he shall not taste death 
for ever. Art thou greater 
than our father Abraham, w4io 
is dead ? and the prophets are 
dead. Whom dost thou make 
thyself? Jesus answered : If 
I glorify myself, my glory is 
nothing. It is my Father that 
glorifieth me, of whom you say 
that he is your God. And you 
have not known him, but I 
know him. And if I shall say 
that I know him not, I shall be 
like to you, a liar. But I do 
know him, and do keep his 
word. Abraham ^'our father 
rejoiced that he might see my 
day : he saw it, and was glad. 
The Jews therefore said to 
him : Thou art not yet fifty 
years old, and hast thou seen 
Abraham ? 

19. Jesus said to them : 
Amen, amen, I say to you, be- 
fore Abraham was made, I am. 
They took up stones therefore 
to cast at him. But Jesus hid 
himself, and went out of the 
temple. 

20. (John 9. A. D. 32.) 
Now Jesus passing by, saw a 
man, who was blind from his 
birth : And his disciples asked 
him : Babbi, who hath sinned, 
this man, or his parents, that 
he should be born blind ? Jesus 
answered : Neither hath this 
man sinned, nor his parents; 
but that the works of God 
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I must work the works of him 
that sent me, whilst it is day : 
the night eometh, when no man 
* can work. As long as 1 am in 
the world, I am the light of the 
world. When he had said these 
things, he spat on the ground, 
and made clay of the spittle, 
and spread the clay upon his 
eyes. And said to him : Go, 
wash in the pool of Siloe, which 
is interpreted, Sent. He went 
therefore, and washed, and he 
came seeing. The neighbours 
therefore, and they who had 
seen him before that he was a 
beggar, said: Is not this he 
that sat and begged? Some 
said: This is he. But others 
said : No, but he is like him. 
But he said: I am he. They 
said therefore to him: How 
were thy eyes opened ? He 
answered : That man that is 
called Jesus made clay, and an- 
ointed my eyes, and said to 
me : Go to the pool of Siloe, 
and wash. And I went, I 
washed, and I see. And they 
said to him : Where is he ? He 
saith : I know not. The^^ bring 
him that had been blind to the 
Pharisees. Now it was the 
sabbath, when Jesus made the 
clay, and opened his ej^es. 
Again therefore the Pharisees 
asked him, how he had received 
his sight. But he said to 
them : He put clay upon my 
eyes, and I washed, and I 
see. Some therefore of the 
Pharisees said : This man is 
not of God, who keepeth not 
the sabbath. But others said : 
How can a man that is a sinner 



do such miracles ? And there 
was a division among them. 
They say therefore to the blind 
man again : What sayest thou 
of him that hath opened thy 
eyes ? And he said : He is a 
prophet. The Jews then did 
not believe concerning him, that 
he had been blind, and had re- 
ceived his sight, until they 
called the parents of him that 
had received his sight, and 
asked them, saying : Is this 
your son, who 3-0 u say was born 
blind ? How then doth he now 
see ? His parents answered 
them, and said : We know that 
this is our son, and that he was 
born blind : But how he now 
seeth, we know not ; or who hath 
opened his eyes, we know not ; 
ask himself; he is of age, let 
him speak for himself These 
things his parents said, because 
they feared the Jews : for the 
Jews had already agreed among 
themselves, that if any man 
should confess him to be Christ, 
he should be put out of the 
synagogue. Therefore did his 
parents say : He is of age, 
ask him. They therefore called 
the man again that had been 
blind, and said to him : Give 
glory to God. We know that 
this man is a sinner. He said 
therefore to them : If he be 
a sinner, I know not : one 
thing I know, that whereas I 
was blind, now I see. They 
said then to him : AYhat did 
he to thee ? How did he open 
thy ej^es ? He answered them : 
I have told you already, and 
you have heard : why would you 



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hear it again ? will you also be- 
come bis disciples ? Tbey re- 
viled bim tberefore, and said : 
Be tboii bis disciple ; but we 
are tbe disciples of Moses. 
We know tbat God spoke to 
Moses: but as to this man, we 
know not from whence he is. 
The man answered, and said to 
them: Wh}^ herein is a won- 
derful thing, that you know not 
from whence he is, and he hath 
opened my eyes. Now we know 
that God doth not hear sinners : 
but if a man be a server of God, 
and doth his will, him he hear- 
eth. From the beginning of 
the world it hath not been 
heard, that any man hath 
opened the eyes of one born 
blind. Unless this man were 
of God, he could not do any 
thing. They answered, and 
said to him : Thou wast wholly 
born in sins, and dost thou 
teach us? And they cast him 
out. Jesus heard that they had 
cast him out ; and when he had 
found him, he said to him : dost 
thou believe in the Son of God ? 
He answered, and said : Who 
is he. Lord, that I may believe 
in him ? And Jesus said to 
him : Thou bast both seen him ; 
and it is he that talketh with 
thee. And he said : I believe. 
Lord. And falling down, he 
adored him. And Jesus said : 
For judgment I am come into 
this world.; that they who see 
not, may see ; and they who 
see, may become blind. And 
some of the Pharisees, who 
were with him, heard : and they 
said unto him : Are we also 



blind ? Jesus said to them : If 
you were blind you should not 
have sin : but now you say : 
We se-e. Your sin remaineth. 

2L (John 10.) Amen, amen, 
I say to 3'ou : he that entereth 
not by tbe door into the sheep- 
fold, but climbeth up another 
way, the same is a thief and a 
robber. But he that entereth 
in by the door is the shepherd 
of the sheep. To him tbe 
porter openeth ; and the sheep 
hear his voice: and he calleth 
his own sheep by name, and 
leadeth them out. And when 
he hath let out his own sheep, 
he goeth before them : and the 
sheep follow him, because they 
know his voice. But a stranger 
they follow not, but fly from 
him, because they know not tbe 
voice of strangers. This prov- 
erb Jesus spoke to them. But 
they understood not what he 
spoke to them. Jesus there- 
fore said to them again : Amen, 
amen, I say to you, I am the 
door of the sheep. All others, 
as many as have come, are 
thieves and robbers : and the 
sheep heard them not. I am 
the door. By me, if any man 
enter in, be shall be saved : and 
be shall go in, and go out, and 
shall find pastures. The thief 
Cometh not, but for to steal, and 
to kill, and to destroy. I am 
come tbat tbey may have life, 
and may have it more abun- 
dantl3^ I am tbe good shep- 
herd. Tbe good shepherd giveth 
his life for his sheep. But the 
hireling, and he that is not the 
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are not, seeth the wolf coming, 
and leaveth the sheep, and fli- 
eth : and the wolf catcheth, and 
scattereth the sheep : And the 
hireling flieth, because he is a j 
Jiireling : and he hath no care 
for the sheep. I am the good | 
shepherd ; and I know mine, 
and mine know me. As the 
Father knoweth me, and I know 
the Father : and I lay down m}^ 
life for my sheep. And other 
sheep I have, that are not of 
this fold : them also I must 
bring, and they shall hear my 
voice, and there shall be one 
fold and one shepherd. There- 
fore doth the Father love me : 
because I lay down my life, 
that I may take it again. No 
man taketh it awa}^ from me : 
but I lay it down of myself, and 
I have power to lay it down : 
and I have power to take it up 
again. This commandment 
have I received of my Father. 
A dissension rose again among 
the Jews for these words. And 
many of them said : He hath 
a devil, and is mad : why hear 
you him ? Others said : these 
are not the words of one that 
hath a devil : Can a devil open 
the eyes of the blind ? 

22. (Luke 11.) Now it 
came to pass, that as he was 
in a certain place praying, when 
he ceased, one of his disciples 
said to him : Lord, teach us to 
pray, as John also taught his 
disciples. And he said to 
them: When you pray, say: 
Father, hallowed be thy name. 
Thy kingdom come. Give us 
this day our daily bread. And 



forgive us our sins, for we also 
forgive every one that is in- 
debted to us. And lead us not 
into temptation. And he said 
to them : Which of j'ou shall 
have a friend, and shall go 
to him at midnight, and shall 
say to him : Friend, lend me 
three loaves. Because a friend 
of mine is come off his jour- 
ney to me, and I have not 
what to set before him. And 
he from within should answer, 
and say : Trouble me not, the 
door is now shut, and m}^ chil- 
dren are with me in bed ; I can- 
not rise and give thee. Yet if 
he shall continue knocking, I 
say to you, although he will 
not rise and give him, because 
he is his friend ; yet, because of 
his importunity, he will rise, 
and give him as many as he 
needeth. And I say to you, 
Ask, and it shall be given you : 
seek, and you shall find : knock, 
and it shall be opened to you. 
For everyone that asketh, re- 
ceiveth ; and he that seeketh, 
findeth ; and to him that knock- 
eth, it shall be opened. And 
which of you if he ask his 
father bread, will he give him a 
stone ? or a fish, will he for a 
fish give him a serpent? Or 
if he shall ask an egg^ will he 
reach him a scorpion ? If a'ou 
then, being evil, know how to 
give good gifts to 3^our chil- 
dren, how much more will your 
Father from heaven give the 
good Spirit to them that ask 
him ? 

23. (A. D. 32.) Now he 
was casting out a devil, and 



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the same was dumb : and when 
he had cast out the devil, the 
dumb spoke : and the multi- 
tudes were in admiration at it : 
But some of them said : He 
casteth out devils by Beelze- 
bub, the prince of devils. And 
others tempting, asked of him 
a sign from heaven. But he 
seeing their thoughts, said to 
them : Every kingdom divided 
against itself, shall be brought 
to desolation, and house upon 
house shall fall. And if satan 
also be divided against himself, 
how shall his kingdom stand ? 
because you say, that through 
Beelzebub I cast out devils. 
Now if I cast out devils by 
Beelzebub; by whom do your 
children cast them out? There- 
fore they shall be your judges. 
But if I by the finger of God 
cast out devils ; doubtless the 
kingdom of God is come upgn 
you. When a strong man 
armed keepeth his court, those 
things are in peace which he 
possesseth. But if a stronger 
than he come upon him, and 
overcome him ; he will take 
away all his armour wherein he 
trusted, and will distribute his 
spoils. He that is not with 
me, is against me ; and he that 
gathereth not with me, scatter- 
eth. 

24. When the unclean spir- 
it is gone out of a man, he 
walketh through places with- 
out water, seeking rest ; and 
not finding, he saith : I will re- 
turn into my house whence I 
came out. And when he is 
come, he findeth it swept and 



garnished. Then he goeth and 
taketh with him seven other 
spirits more wicked than him- 
self, and entering in they dwell 
there. And the last state of 
that man becomes worse than 
the first. 

25. Now it came to pass, as 
he spoke these things, a certain 
woman from the crowd, lifting 
up her voice, said to him : 
Blessed is the womb that bore 
thee, and the paps that gave 
thee suck. But he said : Yea 
rather, blessed are they who 
hear the word of God, and keep 
it. 

26. Now the multitudes 
running together, he began to 
say : This generation is a 
wicked generation : it asketh a 
sign, and a sign shall not be 
given it, but the sign of Jonas 
the prophet. For as Jonas was 
a sign to the Ninivites ; so shall 
the son of man also be to this 
generation. The queen of the 
south shall rise in the judgment 
with the men of this genera- 
tion, and shall condemn them : 
because she came from the ends 
of the earth to hear the wisdom 
of Solomon ; and behold more 
than Solomon here. The men 
of Ninive shall rise in the judg- 
ment with this generation, and 
shall condemn it ; because they 
did penance at the preaching of 
Jonas; and behold more than 
Jonas here. No man lighteth 
a candle, and putteth it in a 
hidden place, nor under a 
bushel ; but upon a candlestick, 
that they that come in, may see 
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enlighten 



body is thy eye. If thy eye be 
single, thy whole body will be 
lightsome : but if it be evil, thy 
body also will be darksome. 
Take heed therefore, that the 
light which is in thee, be not 
darkness. If then thy whole 
body be lightsome, having no 
part of darkness ; the whole 
shall be lightsome ; and as a 
bright lamp, shall 
thee. 

27. Now as he was speak- 
ing, a certain Pharisee prayed 
him, that he would dine with 
him. And he going in, sat 
down to eat. And the Pharisee 
began to say, thinking within 
himself, why he was not washed 
before dinner. And the Lord 
said to him : Now you Phari- 
sees make clean the outside of 
the cup and of the platter ; but 
your inside is full of rapine and 
iniquity. Ye fools, did not he 
that made that which is with- 
out, make also that which is 
within? But yet that which 
remaineth, give alms; and be- 
hold, all things are clean unto 
you. But wo to you Pharisees, 
because you tithe mint and rue 
and every herb ; and pass over 
judgment, and the charity of 
God. Now these things you 
ougiit to have done, and not to 
leave tiie other undone. Wo to 
you, Pharisees, because ^-ou 
love the uppermost seats in the 
synagogues, and salutations in 
the market-place. Wo to you, 
because you are as sepulchres 
that appear not, and men that 
w^alk over, are not aware. And 
one of the lawyers answering. 



saith to him : Master, in say- 
ing these things, thou reproach- 
est us also. And the Pharisees 
and the lawj^ers began violently 
to urge him, and to oppress his 
mouth about many things, ly- 
ing in wait for him, and seeking 
to catch something from his 
mouth, that they might accuse 
him. 

(Luke 12.) And when great 
multitudes stood about him, so 
that they trod one upon an- 
other, he began to say to his 
disciples : Beware ye of the 
leaven of the Pharisees, which 
is hypocrisy. For there is noth- 
ing covered, that shall not be 
revealed : nor hidden, that shall 
not be known. For whatso- 
ever things you have spoken 
in darkness, shall be published 
in the light : and that which 
you have spoken in the ear in 
the chambers, shall be preached 
on the housetops. 

28. Now I sa}^ to you, my 
friends : Be not afraid of them 
who kill the body, and after 
that have no more that they 
can do. But I will shew you 
whom you shall fear ; fear ye 
him, who after he hath killed, 
hath power to cast into hell: 
Yea, I say to you, fear him. 
Are not five sparrows sold for 
two farthings, and not one of 
them is forgotten before God ? 
Yea, the very hairs of your 
head are all numbered. Fear 
not therefore : You are of 
more value than many spar- 
rows. 

29. Now I say to you, 
Whosoever shall confess me be- 



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fore men, him shall the son of 
man also confess before the 
Angels of God. But he that 
shall deny me before men, shall 
be denied before the Angels of 
God. And whosoever speaketh 
a word against the son of man, 
it shall be forgiven him : but to 
him that shall blaspheme 
against the Holy Ghost, it 
shall not be .forgiven. And 
when they shall bring you into 
the synagogues, and to magis- 
trates and powers, be not solic- 
itous how or what 3'ou shall 
answer, or what you shall say ; 
For the Holy Ghost shall teach 
you in the same hour what you 
must say. 

30. Now one of the multi- 
tude said to him : Master, speak 
to my brother that he divide 
the inheritance with me. But 
he said to him : Man, who hath 
appointed me judge, or divider, 
over you ? And he said to 
them : Take heed, and beware 
of all covetousness ; for a man's 
life doth not consist in the 
abundance of things which he 
possesseth. And he spoke a 
similitude to them, saying: 
The land of a certain rich man 
brought forth plenty of fruits. 
And he thought witliin himself, 
saying : What shall I do, be- 
cause I have no room where to 
bestow my fruits? And he 
said: This will I do: I will 
pull down my barns, and will 
build greater ; and into them 
will I gather all things that are 
grown to me, and m}^ goods. 
And I will say to my soul : 
Soul, thou hast much goods laid 



up for many years, take thy 
rest; eat, drink, make good 
cheer. But God said to him : 
Thou fool, this night do they 
require thy soul of thee : and 
whose shall those things be 
which thou hast provided ? So 
is he that layeth up treasure 
for himself, and is not rich to- 
wards God. And he said to his 
disciples : Therefore I say to 
you, be not solicitous for your 
life, what you shall eat ; nor for 
your body, what you shall put 
on. The life is more than the 
meat, and the body is more 
than the raiment. Consider the 
ravens, for they sow not, neith- 
er do they reap, neither have 
they storehouse nor barn, and 
God feedeth them. How much 
are you more valuable than 
they ? And which of you, by 
taking thought, can add to his 
stature one cubit? If then jq 
be not able to do so much as 
the least thing, why are you 
solicitous for the rest? Con- 
sider the lilies, how they grow : 
they labour not, neither do they 
spin. But I say to you, not 
even Solomon in all liis glory 
was clothed like one of these. 
Now if God clothe in this man- 
ner the grass that is to-day in 
the field, and to-morrow is cast 
into the oven ; how much more 
you, 3'e of little faith ? And 
seek not j'ou what you shall 
eat, or what you shall drink : 
and be not lifted up on high. 
For all these things do the na- 
tions of the world seek. But 
your Father knoweth that you 
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seek ye first the kingdom of 
God and bis justice, and all 
these things shall be added un- 
to you. Fear not, little flock, 
for it hath pleased your Father 
to give you a kingdom. Sell 
what you possess and give 
alms. Make to yourselves bags 
which grow not old, a treasure 
in heaven which faileth not : 
where no thief approacheth, 
nor moth corrupteth. For where 
your treasure is, there will 3'our 
heart be also. 

31. Let your loins be girt, 
and lamps burning 'in your 
hands. And you yourselves 
like to men who wait for their 
lord, when he shall return from 
the wedding ; that when he 
Cometh and knocketh, they may 
open to him immediately. 
Blessed are those servants, 
whom the Lord when he Com- 
eth, shall find watching. Amen 
I say to you, that he will gird 
himself, and make them sit 
down to meat, and passing will 
minister unto them. And if he 
shall come in the second watch, 
or come in the third watch, and 
find them so, blessed are those 
servants. But this know ye, 
that if the householder did 
know at what hour the thief 
would come, he would surely 
watch, and open, not suff'er his 
house to be broken open. Be 
you then also ready : for at 
what hour you think not, the 
son of man will come. And 
Peter said to him : Lord, dost 
thou speak this parable to us, 
or likewise to all? And the 
Lord said: Who (thinkest 



thou) is the faithful and wise 
steward, whom his lord setteth 
over his family, to give them 
their measure of wheat indue 
season ? Blessed is that serv- 
ant, whom when his lord shall 
come, he shall find so doing. 
Yerily I say to you, he will set 
him over all that he possesseth. 
But if that servant shall say in 
his heart : My lord is long a 
coming ; and shall begin to 
strike the men servants and 
maidservants, and to eat and 
to drink and be drunk : The 
lord of that servant will come 
in the day that he hopeth not, 
and at the hour that he know- 
eth not, and shall separate him, 
and shall appoint him his por- 
tion with unbelievers. And 
that servant who knew the will 
of his lord, and prepared not 
himself^ and did not according 
to his will, shall be beaten with 
many stripes. But he that 
knew not, and did things 
worthy of stripes, shall be 
beaten with few stripes. And 
unto whomsoever much is 
given, of him much shall be re- 
quired : and to whom they have 
committed much, of him they 
will demand the more. 

32. I am come to cast fire 
on the earth : and what will I, 
but that it be kindled? And I 
have a baptism wherewith I am 
to be baptised : and how am I 
straitened until it be accom- 
plished ? Think ye, that I am 
come to give peace on earth ? I 
tell you, no; but separation. 
For there shall be from hence- 
forth five in one house divided : 



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three against two, and two 
against tiiree. The father shall 
he divided against the son, and 
the son against his fatlier, the 
mother against the daughter, 
and the daughter against the 
mother, the mother-in-law 
against her daughter-in-law, 
and the daughter-in-law against 
her mother-in-law. 

33. Then he said also to 
the multitudes : When you see 
a cloud rising from the west, 
presently you say : A shower 
is coming : and so it happen- 
eth : And when ye see the 
south wind blow, you say : 
There will be heat ; and it Com- 
eth to pass. You hypocrites, 
you know how to discern the 
face of the heaven and of the 
earth : but how is it that you 
do not discern tliis time? And 
why even of yourselves, do you 
not judge tbat which is just? 

34. And when thou goest 
with thy adversary to the 
prince, whilst thou art in the 
way, endeavour to be delivered 
from him : lest perhaps he draw 
thee to the judge, and the judge 
deliver thee to the exacter, and 
the exacter cast thee into pris- 
on. 1 sav to thee, thou shalt 
not go out thence, until thou 
pav the very last mite. 

35. (Luke 13. A. D. 32.) 
Now there were present, at that 
very time, some that told him 
of the Galileans, whose blood 
Pilate had mingled with their 
sacrifices. And he answering, 
said to them : Think you, that 
these Galileans were sinners 
above all the men of Galilee, be- 



cause they suffered such things? 
No, I say to you : but unless you 
shall do penance, you shall all 
likewise perish. Or those eigh- 
teen upon whom the tower fell 
in Siloe, and slew them : think 
j'ou, that they also were debt- 
ors above all the men that dwelt 
in Jerusalem? No, I say to 
you ; but except you do pen- 
ance, you shall all likewise per- 
ish. 

36. He spoke also this par- 
able ; A certain man had a fig- 
tree planted in his vineyard, 
and he came seeking fruit on it, 
and found none. And he said 
to the dresser of the vineyard : 
Behold, for these three years I 
come seeking fruit on this fig- 
tree, and I find none. Cut it 
down therefore : why cumber- 
eth it the ground ? But he an- 
swering said to him : Lord, let 
it alone this year also, until I 
dig about it, and dung it. And 
if happily it bear fruit : but if 
not, then after that thou shalt 
cut it down. 

37. Now he was teaching in 
their synagogue on their sab- 
bath. And behold there was a 
woman, who had a spirit of in- 
firmity eighteen years : and she 
was bowed together, neither 
could she look upwards at all. 
Whom w^hen Jesus saw, he 
called her unto him, and said 
to her : Woman, thou art de- 
livered from thy infirmitj'. 
And he laid his hands upon 
her, and immediately she was 
made straight, and glorified 
God. 

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69 



synagogue (being angry that 
Jesus had healed on the sab- 
bath,) answering said to the 
multitude : Six days there are 
wherein you ought to work. In 
them therefore come, and be 
healed ; and not on the sabbath 
day. And the Lord answering 
him, said : Ye hypocrites, doth 
not every one of you, on the 
sabbath day, loose his ox or his 
ass from the manger, and lead 
them to water? And ought 
not this daughter of Abraham, 
whom satan hath bound, lo, 
these eighteen years, be loosed 
from this bond on the sabbath 
day ? And when he said these 
things, all his adversaries were 
ashamed : and all the people 
rejoiced for all the things that 
were gloriously done by him. 

39. He said therefore : To 
what is the kingdom of God 
like, and whereunto shall I re- 
semble it ? It is like to a grain 
of mustard-seed, which a man 
took and cast into his garden, 
and it grew and became a great 
tree, and the birds of the air 
lodged in the branches thereof. 
And again he said : Where- 
unto shall I esteem the king- 
dom of God to be like ? It is 
like to leaven, which a woman 
took and hid in three measures 
of meal, till the whole was leav- 
ened. And he went through 
the cities and towns teaching, 
and making his journey to Je- 
rusalem. 

40. (John 10.) Now it was 
the feast of the dedication at 
Jerusalem : and it was winter. 
And Jesus walked in the tem- 



ple, in Solomon's porch. The 
Jews therefore came round 
about him, and said to him : 
How long dost thou hold our 
souls in suspense? If thou be 
the Christ, tell us plainly. 
Jesus answered them : I speak 
to you, and you believe not: 
the works that I do in the name 
of my Father, they give testi- 
mony of me. But you do not 
believe, because you are not of 
my sheep. My sheep hear my 
voice : and I know them, and 
they follow me. And I give 
them life everlasting ; and they 
shall not perish for ever, and no 
man shall pluck them out of my 
hand. That which my Father 
hath given me, is greater than 
all : and no one can snatch 
them out of the hand of my 
Father. I and the Father are 
one. The Jews then took up 
stones to stone him. Jesus an- 
swered them : Many good 
works I have shewed you from 
my Father ; for which of those 
works do you stone me ? The 
Jews answered him : For a 
good work we stone thee not, 
but for blasphemy ; and because 
that thou, being a man, makest 
thyself God? Jesus answered 
them : Is it not written in 
your law : / said you are gods ? 
If he called them gods, to whom 
the word of God was spoken, 
and the scripture cannot be 
broken ; Do you say of him 
whom the Father hath sancti- 
fied and sent into the w^orld : 
Thou blasphemest, because I 
said, I am the Son of God ? If 
I do not the works of my Fa- 



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tber, believe me not. Butifldo, 
though you will not believe me, 
believe the works : that 3^011 
may know and believe that the 



Father is in me, and I in the 
Father. They sought there- 
fore to take him ; and he es- 
caped out of their hands. 



CHAPTER VII. 



WARNINGS AND EXHORTATIONS. 



1. (John 10. A. D. 32.) 
Now he went again beyond the 
Jordan, into that place where 
John was baptizing first ; and 
there he abode. And many re- 
sorted to him, and they said : 
John indeed did no sign. But 
all things whatsoever John said 
of this man, were true. And 
many believed in him. 

2. (Luke 13.) Now a cer- 
tain man said to him : Lord, 
are they few that are saved ? 
But he said to them : Strive 
to enter by the narrow gate ; 
for many, I say to you, shall 
seek to enter, and shall not be 
able. But when the master of 
the house shall be gone in, and 
shall shut the door, you shiill 
begin to stand without, and 
knock at the door, saying: 
Lord, open to us. And he an- 
swering, shall say to you : I 
know you not, whence you are. 
Then you shall begin to say : 
We have eaten and drunk in 
thy presence, and thou hast 
taught in our streets. And he 
shall say to you : I know 3' ou 
not, whence 3^ou are : depart 
from me, all ye workers of iniq- 



uity. There shall be weeping 
and gnashing of teeth, when 
3'ou shall see Abraham and 
Isaac and Jacob, and all the 
prophets, in the kingdom of 
Grod, and you yourselves thrust 
out. And there shall come 
from the east and the west, and 
the north and the south ; and 
shall sit down in the kingdom 
of God. And behold, they are 
last that shall be first ; and they 
are first that shall be last. 

3. The same da}^, there 
came some of the Pharisees, 
saying to him : Depart, and 
get thee hence, for Herod hath 
a mind to kill thee. And he 
said to them : Go and tell that 
fox, Behold, I cast out devils, 
and do cures to-day and to- 
morrow, and the third day I am 
consummated. Nevertheless I 
must walk to-day and to-mor- 
row, and the day following, be- 
cause it cannot be that a 
prophet perish out of Jerusa- 
lem. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 
that killest the prophets, and 
stonest them that are sent to 
theo, how often would I have 
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bird doth her brood under her 
wings, and thou wouldest not ? 
Behold your house shall be left 
to you desolate. And I say to 
you, that you shall not see me 
till the time come, when you 
shall say : Blessed is he that 
Cometh in the name of the 
Lord. 

4. (Luke 14.) Now it came 
to pass, wiien Jesus went into 
the house of one of the chief of 
the Pharisees, on the sabbath^ 
day, to eat bread, that they 
watched him. And behold, 
there was a certain man before 
him that had the dropsy. And 
Jesus answering, spoke to the 
lawyers and Pharisees, saying : 
Is it lawful to heal on the sab- 
bath day ? But they held their I 
peace. But he taking him, 
healed him, and sent him away. 
And answering them, he said : 
Which of you shall have an ass 
or an ox fall into a pit, and will 
not immediately draw him out, 
on the sabbath-day ? And they 
could not answer him to these 
things. 

5. Now he spoke a parable 
also to them, that were invited, 
marking how they chose the 
first seats at the table, saying 
to them : When thou art invit- 
ed to a wedding, sit not down 
in the first place, lest perhaps 
one more honourable than thou 
be invited by him : and he 
that invited thee and him, come 
and say to thee, give this man 
place : and then thou begin 
with shame to take the lowest 
place. But when thou art in- 
vited, go, sit down in the low- 



est place ; that when he who in- 
vited thee, Cometh, he may say 
to thee : Friend, go up higher. 
Then shalt thou have glory be- 
fore them that sit at table with 
thee. Because every one that 
exalteth himself, shall be hum- 
bled ; and he that humbleth 
himself, shall be exalted. And 
he said to him also that had in- 
vited him : When thou makest 
a dinner or a supper, call not 
thy friends, nor thy brethren, 
nor thy kinsmen, nor thy neigh- 
bours who are rich ; lest per- 
haps they also invite thee again, 
and a recompense be made to 
thee. But when thou makest a 
feast, call the j^oor, the maimed, 
the lame, and the blind ; And 
thou shalt be blessed, because 
they have not wherewith to 
make thee recompense : for rec- 
ompense shall be made thee at 
the resurrection of the just. 

6. When one of them that 
sat at table with him, had heard 
these things, he said to him r 
Blessed is he that shall eat 
bread in the kingdom of God. 
But he said to him : A certain 
man made a great supper, and 
invited raan3^ And he sent his 
servant at the hour of supper 
to say to them that were in- 
vited, that they should come, 
for now all things are read3\ 
And they began all at once to 
make excuse. The first said to 
him : I have bought a farm, and 
I must needs go out and see it : 
I pray thee, hold me excused. 
And another said : I have 
bought five yoke of oxen, and I 
go to try them : I pray thee, 



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hold me excused. And another 
said: I have married a wife, 
and therefore I cannot come. 
And the servant returning, told 
these things to his lord. Then 
the master of the house, being 
angry, said to his servant : Go 
out quickly into the streets and 
lanes of the city, and bring in 
hither the poor, and the feeble, 
and the blind, and the lame. 
And the servant said : Lord it 
is done as thou hast com- 
manded, and yet there is room. 
And the Lord said to the serv- 
ant : Go out into the highways 
and hedges, and compel them to 
come in, that my house may be 
filled. But I say unto you, that 
none of those men that were in- 
vited, shall taste of my supper. 
7. Now there went great 
multitudes with him. And 
turning, he said to them : If 
any man come to me, and hate 
not his father, and mother, and 
wife, and children, and breth- 
ren, and sisters, yea and his 
own life also, he cannot be my 
disciple. And whosoever doth 
not carry his cross and come 
after me, cannot be my disciple. 
For which of you having a mind 
to build a tower, doth not first 
sit down, and reckon the 
charges that are necessar^^ 
whether he have wherewithal to 
finish it: Lest, after he hath 
laid the foundation, and is not 
able to finish it, all that see it 
begin to mock laim. Saying : 
This man began to build, and 
was not able to finish. Or what 
king, about to go to make war 
against another king, doth not 



first sit down, and think wheth- 
er he be able, with ten thou- 
sand, to meet him that, with 
twenty thousand, cometh 
against him ? Or else, whilst 
the other is yet afar off", send- 
ing an embassy, he desireth 
conditions of peace. So like- 
wise every one of you tbat doth 
not renounce all that he pos- 
sesseth, cannot be my disciple. 
Salt is good. But if the salt 
shall lose its savour, wherewith 
shall it be seasoned? It is 
neither profitable for the land 
nor for the dunghill, but shall 
be cast out. He that hath ears 
to hear, let him hear. 

8. (Luke 15. A. D. 32.) Now 
the publicans and sinners drew 
near unto him to hear him. And 
the Pharisees and the scribes 
murmured, saying : This man 
receiveth sinners, and eateth 
with them. And he spoke to 
them this parable, saying: 
What man of you that hath an 
hundred sheep : and if he shall 
lose one of them, doth he not 
leave the ninety-nine in the des- 
ert, and go after that which 
was lost, until he find it ? And 
when he hath found it, lay it 
upon his shoulders, rejoicing : 
And coming home, call together 
his friends and neighbours, say- 
ing to them : Rejoice with mie, 
because I have found my sheep 
that was lost? I say to j^ou, 
that even so there shall be joy 
in heaven upon one sinner that 
doth penance, more than up- 
on ninet3-nine just who need 
not penance. Or what woman 
having ten groats ; if she lose 



LIFE OF CHRIST. 



one groat, cloth not light a can- 
dle, and sweep the house, and 
seek diligently until she find it? 
And when she hath found it, 
call together her friends and 
neighbours, saying : Rejoice 
with me, because I have found 
the groat which I had lost. So 
I say to you, there shall be joy 
before the Angels of God upon 
one sinner doing penance. 

9. Then he said : A certain 
man had two sons: And the 
younger of them said to his 
father : Father, give me the 
portion of substance that falleth 
to me. And he divided unto 
them his substance. And not 
many days after, the younger 
son, gathering all together, 
went abroad into a far country : 
and there wasted his substance, 
living riotously. And after he 
had spent all, there came a 
mighty famine in that country ; 
and he began to be in want. 
And he went and cleaved to one 
of the citizens of that country. 
And he sent him into his farm 
to feed swine. And he would 
fain have filled his belly with 
the husks the swine did eat ; and 
no man gave unto him. And 
returning to himself, he said : 
How many hired servants in 
my father's house abound with 
bread, and I here perish with 
hunger? I will arise, and will 
go to my father, and say to 
him : Father, I have sinned 
against heaven, and before thee : 
I am not worthy to be called 
thy son : make me as one of 
thy hired servants. And rising 
up he came to his father. And 



when he was yet a great way 
off, his father saw him, and was 
moved with compassion, and 
running to him fell upon his 
neck, and kissed him. And the 
son said to him : Father, I have 
sinned against heaven, and be- 
fore thee, I am not now worthy 
to be called thy son. And the 
father said to his servants : 
Bring forth quickly the first 
robe, and put it on him, and 
put a ring on his hand, and 
shoes on his feet : And bring 
hither the fatted calf, and kill 
it, and let us eat and make 
merry : Because this my son 
was dead, and is come to life 
again : was lost, and is found. 
And they began to be merry. 
Now his elder son was in the 
field, and when he came and 
drew nigh to the house, he 
heard music and dancing : And 
he called one of the servants, 
and asked, what thes^e things 
meant. And he said to him : 
Thy brother is come, and thy 
father hath killed the fatted 
calf, because he hath received 
him safe. And he was angry, 
and would not go in. His father 
therefore coming out began to 
entreat him. And he answer- 
ing, said to his father : Behold, 
for so many years do I serve 
thee, and I have never trans- 
gressed thy commandment, and 
yet thou hast never given me a 
kid to make merry with my 
friends : But as soon as this 
thy son is come, who hath de- 
voured his substance with har- 
lots, thou hast killed for him the 
fatted calf. B u t he said to him : 



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Son, thou art always with me, 
and all I have is thine. But it 
was fit that we should make 
merry and be glad, for this thy 
brother was dead and is come 
to life again ; he was lost, and 
is found. 

10. (Luke 16.) Now he said 
, also to his disciples : There was a 
certain rich man who had a stew- 
ard : and the same was accused 
unto him, that he had wasted his 
goods. And he called him, and 
said to him : How is it that I 
hear this of tbee? give an ac- 
count of thy stewardship : for 
now thou canst be steward no 
longer. And the steward said 
within himself: What shall I 
do, because my lord taketh 
away from me the stewardship ? 
to dig I am not able ; to beg I 
am asiiamed. I know what I 
will do, that when I shall be 
removed from the stewardship, 
they may receive me into their 
houses. Therefore calling to- 
gether every one of his lord's 
debtors, he said to the first : 
How much dost thou owe m}^ 
lord? But he said : An hun- 
dred barrels of oil. And he 
said to him : Take thy bill and 
sit down quickly, and write 
fifty. Then he said to another : 
And how much dost thou owe? 
Who said : An hundred quar- 
ters of wheat. He said to him : 
Take thy bill, and write eighty. 
And the lord commended the 
unjust steward, forasmuch as 
he had done wisely ; for the 
children of this world are wiser 
in their generation than the 
children of light. And I sa}^ 



to you : Make unto 3"0U friends 
of the mammon of iniquity ; 
that when you shall fail, they 
may receive you into everlast- 
ing dwellings. 

11, He that is faithful in 
that which is least, is faithful 
also in that which is greater : 
and he that is unjust in that 
which is little, is unjust also in 
that which is greater. If then 
you have not been faithful in 
the unjust mammon ; who will 
trust you with that which is 
the true ? And if you have not 
been faithful in that wiiich is 
another's ; w4io will give you 
that which is your own ? No 
servant can serve two masters : 
for either he will hate the one, 
and love the other ; or he will 
hold to the one, and despise the 
other. You cannot serve God 
and mammon. 

12. Now the Pharisees, who 
were covetous, heard all these 
things: and they derided him. 
And he said to them : You are 
they w^ho justify yourselves be- 
fore men, but God knoweth 
your hearts ; for that which is 
high to men, is an abomination 
before God. The law and the 
prophets were until John ; from 
that time the kingdom of God 
is preached, and every one useth 
violence towards it. And it is 
easier for heaven and earth to 
pass, than one tittle of the law 
to fall. Every one that putteth 
away his wife, and marrieth 
another, committeth adultery : 
and he that marrieth her that 
is put away from her husband, 
committeth adultery. 



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13. There was a certain rich 
man, who was clothetl in purple 
and fine linen ; and feasted 
sumptuously every day. And 
there was a certain beggar, 
named Lazarus, who lay at his 
gate, full of sores, desiring to 
be filled with the crumbs that 
fell from the rich man's table, 
and no one did give him ; more- 
over the dogs came, and licked 
his sores. And it came to pass, 
that the beggar died, and was 
carried by the angels into Abra- 
ham's bosom. And the rich 
man also died : and he was bur- 
ied in hell. And lifting up his 
eyes when he was in torments, 
he saw Abraham afar oflT, and 
Lazarus in his bosom : And he 
cried, and said : Father Abra- 
ham, have mercy on me, and 
send Lazarus, that he may dip 
the tip of his finger in water, to 
cool my tongue : for I am tor- 
mented in this flame. And 
Abraham said to him : Son, re- 
member that thou didst receive 
good things in thy lifetime, and 
likewise Lazarus evil things, 
but now he is comforted ; and 
thou art tormented. And be- 
sides all this, between us and 
you, there is fixed a great 
chaos : so that they who would 
pass from hence to you, can- 
not, nor from thence come 
hither. And he said : Then, 
father, I beseech thee, that thou 
wouldst send him to my father's 
house, for I have five breth- 
ren. That he may testify unto 
them, lest they also come into 
this place of torments. And 
Abraham said to him ; They 



I have Moses and the prophets ; 
I let them hear them. But he 
: said : No, father Abraham : but 
if one went to them from the 
dead, they will do penance. 
And he said to him : If they 
hear not Moses and the proph- 
ets, neither will they believe, if 
one arise again from the dead. 

14. (Luke 17.) Now he 
said to his disciples : It is im- 
possible that scandals should 
not come : but woe to him 
through "whom the}^ come. It 
were better for him, that a mill- 
stone were hanged about his 
neck, and he cast into the sea, 
than that he should scandalize 
one of these little ones. Take 
heed to yourselves. If thy 
brother sin against thee, re- 
prove him : and if he do pen- 
ance, forgive him. 

(Mat. 18.) If he shall hear 
thee, thou shalt gain thy 
brother. And if he will not 
hear thee, take with thee one 
or two more : that in the mouth 
of two or three witnesses every 
word may stand. And if he 
will not hear them : tell the 
church. And if he will not 
hear the church, let him be to 
thee as the heathen and publi- 
can. Amen I say to you, what- 
soever you shall bind upon 
earth, shall be bound also in 
heaven ; and whatsoever you 
shall loose upon earth, shall be 
loosed also in heaven. 

15. Again I say to you, 
that if two of you shall consent 
upon earth, concerning any 
thing whatsoever they shall 
ask, it shall be done to them by 



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my Father who is in heaven. 
For where there are two or 
three gathered together in my 
name, there am I in the midst 
of them. 

16. Tlien came Peter unto 
him and said : Lord, how often 
shall my brother offend against 
me, and I forgive him ? till 
seven times? Jesus saith to 
him : I say not to thee, till 
seven times; but till seventy 
times seven times? Therefore 
is the kingdom of heaven lik- 
ened to a king, who would take 
an account of his servants. And 
when he had begun to take the 
account, one was brought to 
him, that owed him ten thou- 
sand talents. And as he had 
not wherewith to pay it, his 
lord commanded that he should 
be sold, and his wife and chil- 
dren and all that he had, and 
payment to be made. But that 
servant falling down, besought 
him, saying : Have patience 
with me, and I will pay thee 
all. And the lord of that serv- 
ant being moved with pity, let 
him go and forgave him the 
debt. But when that servant 
was gone out, he found one of 
his fellow-servants that owed 
him an hundred pence ; and 
laying hold of him, he throt- 
tled him, saying: Pay what 
thou owest. And his fellow- 
servant falling down, besought 
him, saying: Have patience 
with me, and I will pay thee 
all. And he would not : but 
went and cast him into prison, 
till he paid the debt. Now his 
fellow-servants seeing what was 



done, were verj^ much grieved, 
and they came and told their 
lord all that w^as done. Then 
his lord called him ; and said to 
him : Thou wicked servant, I 
forgave thee all the debt, be- 
cause, thou besoughtest me : 
Shouldst not thou then have 
had compassion also on thy fel- 
low-servant, even as I had com- 
passion on thee ? And his lord 
being angry, delivered him to 
the torturers until he paid all 
the debt. So also shall my 
heavenly Father do to you, if 
you forgive not every one his 
brother from your hearts. 

n. (Luke 17.) Now the 
apostles said to the Lord : Li- 
crease our faith. And the Lord 
said : If 3'ou had faith like to a 
grain of mustard-seed, you 
might say to this mulberry- 
tree. Be thou rooted up, and be 
thou transplanted into the sea : 
and it would obey you. 

18. But which of you hav- 
ing a servant plowing, or feed- 
ing cattle, will say to him, 
when he is come from the field : 
Immediately go, sit down to 
meat : And will not rather say 
to him : Make ready my sup- 
per, and gird thyself, and serve 
me, whilst I eat and drink, and 
afterwards thou shalt eat and 
drink? Doth he thank that 
servant, for doing the things 
which he commanded him ? I 
think not. So you also, when 
you shall have done all these 
things that are commanded you, 
say : We are unprofitable serv- 
ants ; we have done that which 
w^e ought to do. 



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19. (John 11.) Now there 
was a certain man sick, named 
Lazarus, of Bethania, of the 
town of Mary and of Martha 
her sister. (And Mary was she 
that anointed the Lord with 
ointment, and wiped his feet 
witli her hair : whose brother 
Lazarus was sick.) His sis- 
ters therefore sent to him, say- 
ing : Lord, behold, he whom 
thou lovest is sick. And Jesus 
hearing it, said to them : This 
sickness is not unto death, but 
for the glory of God : that the 
Son of God maj^ be glorified by 
it. Now Jesus loved Martha, 
and her sister Mary, and Laz- 
arus. When he had heard 
therefore that he was sick, he 
still remained in the same place 
two days. Then after that, he 
said to his disciples : Let us go 
into Judea again. The disci- 
ples say to him : Rabbi, the 
Jews but now sought to stone 
thee : and goest thou thither 
again ? Jesus answered : Are 
there not twelve hours of the 
day ? If a man walk in the 
day, he stumbleth not, because 
he seeth the light of this world : 
But if he walk in the night, he 
stumbleth, because the light is 
not in him. These things he 
said ; and after that he said to 
them : Lazarus our Friend 
sleepeth ; but I go that I may 
awake him out of sleep. His 
disciples therefore said : Lord, 
if he sleep, he shall do well. 
But Jesus spoke of his death ; 
and they thought that he spoke 
of the repose of sleep. Then 
therefore Jesus said to them 



plainly : Lazarus is dead. And 
I am glad, for your sakes, that 
I was not there, that you may 
believe : but let us go to him. 
Thomas therefore, who is called 
Didymus, said to his fellow-dis- 
ciples : Let us also go, that we 
may die with him. Jesus 
therefore came, and found that 
he had been four days already 
in the grave. (Now Bethania 
was near Jerusalem, about fif- 
teen furlongs off*.) And many 
of the Jews were come to Mar- 
tha and Mary, to comfort them 
concerning their brother. Mar- 
tha therefore, as soon as she 
heard that Jesus was come, 
went to meet him : but Mary 
sat at home. 

20. Martha therefore said 
to Jesus : Lord, if thou hadst 
been here, my brother had not 
died. But now also I know 
that whatsoever thou wilt ask 
of God, God will give it thee. 
Jesus saith to her : Thy brother 
shall rise again. Martha saith 
to him : I know that he shall 
rise again, in the resurrection 
at the last day. Jesus said to 
her : I am the resurrection and 
the life : he that believeth in 
me, although he be dead, shall 
live : And every one that liv- 
eth, and believeth in me, shall 
not die forever. Believest thou 
this ? She saith to him : Yea, 
Lord, I have believed that thou 
art Christ the Son of the living 
God, who art come into this 
world. 

21. And when she had said 
these things, she went, and 
called her sister Mary secretly, 



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saying : the master is come, 
and calleth for thee. She, as 
soon as she heard this^ risetii 
quickly and cometh to him. 
For Jesus was not yet come 
into the town : but he was still 
in that place where Martha had 
met him. The Jews therefore, 
who were with her in the house, 
and comforted her, when they 
saw Mary that she rose up 
speedily and went out, followed 
her, saying : She goeth to the 
grave to weep there. When 
Mary therefore was come where 
Jesus was, seeing him, she fell 
down at his feet, and saith to 
him : Lord, if thou hadst been 
here, my brother had not died. 
Jesus, therefore, when he saw 
her weeping, and the Jews that 
were come with her, weeping, 
groaned in the spirit, and trou- 
bled himself, and said : Where 
have you laid him ? They say 
to him : Lord, come and see. 
And Jesus wept. The Jews 
tlverefore said : Behold how he 
loved him. But some of them 
said : Could not he that opened 
the eyes of the man born blind, 
have caused that this man 
should not die? Jesus there- 
fore again groaning in liimself, 
cometh to the sepulchre : Now 
it was a cave ; and a stone was 
laid over it. Jesus saith : 
Take away the stone. Martha, 
the sister of him that was dead, 
saith to him : Lord, by this 
time he stinketh, for he is now 
of four daj^s. Jesus saith to 
her : Did not I sa}^ to thee, 
that if thou believe, thou shalt 
see the glory of God? They 



took therefore the stone awa}'', 
And Jesus lifting up his eyes 
said : Father, I give thee thanks 
that thou hast heard me. And 
I knew that thou hearest me 
always; but because of the 
people who stand about have I 
said it, that they may believe 
that thou hast sent me. When 
he had said these things, he 
cried with a loud voice : Laz- 
arus, come forth. And pres- 
ently he that had been dead 
came forth, bound feet and 
hands with winding bands ; and 
his face was bound about with 
a napkin. Jesus said to them : 
Loose him, and let him go. 
Many therefore of the Jews, 
who were come to Mary and 
Martha, and had seen the things 
Jesus did, believed in him. But 
some of them went to the Phar- 
isees, and told them the things 
that Jesus had done. 

22. (A. D. 32.) The chief 
priests therefore, and the Phar- 
isees, gathered a council, and 
said : What do we, for this man 
doth many miracles ? If we let 
him alone so, all will believe in 
him ; and the Romans will 
come, and take away our place 
and nation. But one of them, 
named Caiphas, being the high- 
priest that year, said to them : 
You know nothing. Neither 
do 3^ou consider that it is ex- 
pedient for 3^ou that one man 
should die for the people, and 
that the whole nation perish 
not. And this he spoke not of 
himself: but being the high- 
priest of that year, he proph- 
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the nation. And not only for 
the nation, but to gather to- 
gether in one the children of 
God, that were dispersed. From 
that day therefore they devised 
to put him to death. Where- 



fore Jesus walked no more 
openly among the Jews ; but 
he went into a country near 
the desert, unto a city that is 
called Ephrem, and there he 
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CHAPTER VIIL 



THE LAST JOURNEY. 



afar off; and 

voice saying : 

mercy 



on 



Whom when he saw, he 



1. (Luke 17. A. D. 33.) 
Now it came to pass, as he was 
going to Jerusalem, he passed 
through the midst of Samaria 
and Galilee. And .as he en- 
tered into a certain town, there 
met him ten men that were lep- 
ers, who stood 
lifted up their 
Jesus, master, have 
us 

said : Go, show yourselves to 
the priests. And it came to 
pass, as they went, they were 
made clean. And one of them, 
when he saw that he was made 
clean, went back, with a loud 
voice glorifying God. And he 
fell on his face before his feet, 
giving thanks : and this was a 
Samaritan. And Jesus an- 
swering, said. Were not ten 
made clean ? and where are the 
nine ? There is no one found 
to return and give glor^'^ to 
God, but this stranger. And 
he said to him : Arise, go thy 
way ; for thy faith hath made 
thee whole. 

2. Now being asked by the 



Pharisees, where the kingdom 
of God should come ? he an- 
swered them, and said: The 
kingdom of God cometh not 
with observation: Neither 
shall they say : Behold here, or 
behold there. For lo,the king- 
dom of God is within you. And 
he said to his disciples : The 
days will come, when you shall 
desire to see one day of the son 
of man ; and you shall not see 
it. And the}^ will say to you : 
See here, and see there. Go ye 
not after, nor follow them : For 
as the lightning that lighteneth 
from under heaven, shineth un- 
to the parts that are under 
heaven, so shall the son of man 
be in his day. But first he 
must suffer many things, and 
be rejected by this generation. 
And as it came to pass in the 
days of Noe, so shall it be also 
in the days of the son of man. 
They did eat and drink, they 
married wives, and were given 
in marriage, until the da}' that 
Noe entered into the ark : and 
the flood came and destroyed 



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them all. Likewise as it came 
to pass, in the da^s of Lot : 
they did eat and drink, they 
bought and sold, they planted 
and built. And in the da}^ 
that Lot went out of Sodom, it 
rained fire and brimstone from 
heaven, and destroyed them all. 
Even thus shall it be in the day 
when the son of man shall be re- 
vealed. In that hour, he that 
shall be on the housetop, and his 
goods in the house, let him not 
go down to take them away : and 
he that shall be in the field, in 
like manner, let him not return 
back. Remember Lot's wife. 
Whosoever shall seek to save 
his life, shall lose it : and who- 
soever shall lose it, shall pre- 
serve it. I say to you : in that 
night there shall be two men in 
one bed ; the one shall be taken, 
and the other shall be left : Two 
women shall be grinding to- 
gether : the one shall be taken, 
and the other shall be left, two 
men shall be in the field ; the one 
shall be taken, and the other 
shall be left. They answering 
saj' to him : Where, Lord ? Who 
said to them : Wheresoever the 
body shall be, thither will the 
eagles also be gathered together. 
3. (Luke 18.) Now he 
spoke also a parable to them, 
that we ought always to pray, 
and not to faint. Saying : There 
was a judge in a certain city, 
who feared not God, nor re- 
garded man. And there was a 
certain widow in that city, and 
she came to him, saying : 
Avenge me of m}^ adversary. 
And he would not for a long 



time. But afterwards he said 
within himself: Although I fear 
not God, nor regard man, yet 
because this widow is trouble- 
some to me, I will avenge her, 
lest continually coming she 
weary me. And the Lord said : 
Hear what the unjust judge 
saith. And will not God re- 
venge his elect who cry to him 
day and night : and will he 
have patience in their regard ? 
I say to you, that he will 
quickly revenge them. But 
yet the son of man, when he 
Cometh, shall he find, think you, 
faith on earth ? 

4. Now to some who trusted 
in themselves as just, and de- 
spised others, he spoke also this 
parable : Two men went up into 
tlie temple to pray : the one a 
Pharisee, and ^the other a pub- 
lican. The Pharisee standing, 
prayed thus with himself: O 
God, I give thee thanks that 
I am not as the rest of men, ex- 
tortioners, unjust, adulterers, 
as also is this publican. I fast 
twice in a week : I give tithes 
of all that I possess. And the 
publican standing afar ofi*, would 
not so much as lift up his eyes 
towards heaven ; but struck 
his breast, saying : God, be 
merciful to me a sinner. I ^^y 
to you, this man went down 
into his house justified rather 
than the other : because every 
one that exalteth himself, shall 
be humbled : and he that hum- 
bleth himself, shall be exalted. 

5. (Mark 10.) Now rising 
up from thence, he cometh into 
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Jordan: and the multitudes 
flock to him again. And as he 
was accustomed, he taught 
them as^ain. And the Pharisees 
coming to him asked him ; Is 
it lawful for a man to put away 
his wife? tempting him. But 
he answering, saith to them : 
What did Moses command you ? 
Who said : Moses permitted to 
write a bill of divorce, and to 
put her away. To whom Jesus 
answering, said; Because of 
the hardness of your heart he 
wrote you that precept. But 
from the beginning of the cre- 
ation, God made them male and 
female. For this cause a man 
shall leave his father and 
mother ; and shall cleave to his 
wife. And they two shall be 
in one flesh. Therefore now 
they are not two, but one flesh. 
What therefore God hath joined 
together, let not man put 
asunder. And in the house 
again his disciples asked him 
concerning the same thing. And 
he saith to them : Whosoever 
shall put away his wife and 
marry another, committeth 
adultery against her. And if 
the wife shall put away her 
husband, and be married to 
another, she committeth adul- 
tery. 

6 . No w t h ey bro u gh t to li i m 
young children, that he might 
touch them. And the disciples 
rebuked them that brought 
them. Whom when Jesus saw, 
he was much displeased, and 
saith to them : Suffer the little 
children to come unto me, and 
forbid them not ; For of such 

6 



is the kingdom of God. Amen 
1 saj^ to you, whosoever shall 
not receive the kingdom of 
God as a little child, shall not 
enter into it. And embracing 
them, and laying his hands 
upon them, he blessed them. 

7. Now when he was gone 
forth into the way, a certain 
man running up and kneeling 
before him, asked him. Good 
Master, what shall I do that I 
may receive life everlasting ? 
And Jesus said to him, Why 
callest thou me good ? None is 
good but one, that is God. Thou 
knowest the commandments : 
Do not commit adulter^y^ do not 
kill^ do not steals hear not false 
witness^ do no fraud ^ honour thy 
father and mother. But he an- 
swering said to him : Master, 
all these things I have observed 
from my youth. And Jesus 
looking on him, loved him, and 
said to him : One thing is want- 



ins unto thee 



go, 



sell whatso- 



ever thou hast, and give to the 
poor, and thou shalt have treas- 
ure in heaven ; and come, fol- 
low me. Who being struck 
sad at that saying, went away 
sorrowful : for he had great 
possessions. And Jesns look- 
ing round about, saith to his 
disciples: How hardly shall 
they that have riches, enter in- 
to the kingdom of God 1 And 
the disciples were astonished at 
his words. But Jesus again 

to them : 



answering. 



saith 



Children, how hard is it for 
them that trust in riches, to 
enter into the kingdom of God? 
It is easier for a camel to pass 



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through the e3^e of a needle, 
than for a rich man to enter 
into the kingdom of God. Who 
wondered the more, saying 
among themselves : Who then 
can be saved? And Jesus 
looking on them, saith : With 
men it is impossible ; but not 
with God : for all things are 
possible with God. And Peter 
began to say unto him : Be- 
hold, we have left all things, 
and have followed thee. 'Jesus 
answering, said : Amen I say 
to you, there is no man who 
hath left house, or brethren, or 
sisters, or father, or mother, or 
children, or lands, for my sake 
and for the gospel, who shall 
not receive an hundred times 
as much, now in this time ; 
houses, and brethren, and sis- 
ters, and mothers, and children, 
and lands, with persecutions : 
and in the world to come life 
everlasting. But many that 
are first, shall be last : and the 
last first. 

8. (Mat. 20.) The kingdom 
of heaven is like to an house- 
holder, who went out early 
in the morning to hire labour- 
ers into his vineyard. And 
having agreed with the labour- 
ers for a penny a day, he 
sent them into his vineyard. 
And going out about the third 
hour, he saw others standing 
in the market-place idle. And 
he said to them : Go you also 
into my vineyard, and I will 
give you what shall be just. 
And they went their way. 
And again he went out about 
the sixth and the ninth hour. 



and did in like manner. But 
about the eleventh hour he 
went out and found others 
standing, and he saith to them : 
Why stand you here all the 
day idle? They say to him: 
because no man hath hired us. 
He saith to them : Go 3^ou also 
into my vineyard. And when 
evening was come, the lord of 
the vineyard saith to his stew- 
ard : Call the labourers and 
pay them their hire, beginning 
from the last even to the first. 
When therefore they were come, 
that came about the eleventh 
hour, they received every man 
a penny. But when the first 
also came, they thought that 
they should receive more : and 
they also received every man a 
penny. ' And receiving it they 
murmured against the master 
of the house, saying: These 
last have worked but one hour, 
and thou hast made them equal 
to us, that have borne the bur- 
den of the day and the heats. 
But he answering said to one 
of them : Friend, I do thee no 
wrong: didst thou not agree 
with me. for a penny ? Take 
what is thine, and go thy way : 
I will also give to this last even 
as to thee. Or, is it not lawful 
for me to do what I will? is 
thy eye evil, because I am 
good ? So shall the last be 
first, and the first last. For 
many are called, but few cho- 
sen. 
9. 
Now 



going 
Jesus 



(Mark 10. A. D. 

they were in the 
up to Jerusalem : 
went before them. 



33.) 
way 
and 
and 



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they were astonished : and fol- 
lowing were afraid. 

(Luke 18. A. D. 33.) Then 
Jesiis took unto him the twelve, 
and said to them : Behold, we go 
up to Jerusalem, and all things 
shall be accomplished which 
were written by the prophets 
concerning the son of man. For 
he shall be delivered to the gen- 
tiles, and shall be mocked, and 
scourged, and spit upon : And 
after they have scourged him, 
they will put him to death ; 
and the third day he shall rise 
again. And they understood 
none of these things, and this 
word was hid from them, and 
they understood not the things 
that were said. 

10. (Mat. 20.) Then came 
to him the mother of the sons 
of Zebedee with her sons, ador- 
ing and asking something of 
him. Who said to her : What 
wilt thou ? She saith to him : 
Say that these my two sons 
may sit, the one on thy right 
hand, and the other on thy left, 
in thy kingdom. And Jesus 
answering, said : You know not 
what 3^ou ask. Can you drink 
the chalice that I shall drink? 
They say to him: we can. He 
saith to them : My chalice in- 
deed 3'ou shall drink; but to 
sit on my right or left hand, is 
not mine to give to you, but 
to them for whom it is prepared 
by my Father. And the ten 
hearing it, were moved with in- 
dignation against the two 
brethren. But Jesus called 
them to him, and said : You 
know that the princes of the 



gentiles lord it over them ; and 
they that are the greater, exer- 
cise power upon them. It shall 
not be so among you : but who- 
soever will be the greater among 
you, let him be your minister : 
And he that will be first among 
you, shall be your servant. 
Even as the son of man is not 
come to be ministered unto, but 
to minister, and to give his life 
a redemption for many. 

11.- (Luke 18.) Now it came 
to pass, when he drew nigh to 
Jericho, that a certain blind 
man sat by the wa3^side, beg- 
ging. And when he heard the 
multitude passing by, he asked 
what this meant. And they 
told him, that Jesus of Naza- 
reth was passing by. And he 
cried out, saying : Jesus, son 
of David, have mercy on me. 
And they that went before, re- 
buked him, that he should hold 
his peace: but he cried out 
much more : Son of David, have 
mercy on me. And Jesus stand- 
ing, commanded him to be 
brought unto him. And when 
he was come near, he asked him, 
Sa^^ng : What wilt thou that I 
do to thee ? But he said : Lord, 
that I may see. And Jesus said 
to him : Receive thy sight : thy 
faith hath made thee whole. 
And immediately he saw, and 
followed him, glorifying God. 
And all the jjeople, when they 
saw it, gave praise to God. 

12. (Luke 19. A. D. 33.) 
Now entering in, he walked 
through Jericho. And behold, 
there was a man named Zach- 
eus, who was the chief of the 



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publicans, and he was rich. 
And he sought to see Jesus 
who he was, and he could not 
for the crowd, because he was 
low of stature. And running 
before, he climbed up into a syc- 
amore tree, that he might see 
him; for he was to pass that 
way. And when Jesus was come 
to the place, looking up, he saw 
him, and said to him: Zacheus, 
make haste and come down ; for 
this day I must abide in tliy 
house. And he made haste and 
came down ; and received him 
with joy. And when all saw it, 
they murmured, saying, that 
he was gone to be a guest with 
a man that was a sinner. But 
Zacheus standing, said to the 
Lord: Behold, Lord,thehalf of 
my goods I give to the poor; 
and if I have wronged any man 
of any thing, I restore him four- 
fold. Jesus said to him : This 
day is salvation come to this 
house, because he t.lso is a son 
of Abraham. For the son of 
man is come to seek and to save 
that which was lost. 

13. As they were hearing 
these things, he added and spoke 
a parable, because he was nigh 
to Jerusalem, and because they 
thought that the kingdom of 
God should immediately be man- 
ifested. He said therefore : A 
certain nobleman went into a 
far country, to receive for him- 
self a kingdom, and to return. 
And calling his ten servants, he 
gave them ten pounds, and said 
to them : Trade till I come. But 
liis citizens hated him ; and they 
sent an embassage after him, 



saying : We will not have this 
man to reign oA^er us. And it 
came to pass, that he returned, 
having received the kingdom : 
and he commanded his servants 
to be called, to whom he had 
given the money, that he might 
know how much every man had 
gained by trading. And the 
first came, saying : Lord, thy 
pound hath gained ten pounds. 
And he said to him : Well done, 
thou good servant, because thou 
hast been faithful in a little, 
thou shalt have power over ten 
cities. And the second came, 
saying : Lord, thy pound hath 
gained five pounds. And he 
said to him : Be thou also over 
five cities. And another came, 
saying : Lord, behold here is 
thy pound, which I have kept 
laid up in a napkin ; For I 
feared thee, because thou art an 
austere man : thou takest up 
what thou didst not lay down, 
and thou reapest that which 
thou didst not sow. He saith 
to him : Out of thy own mouth 
I judge thee, thou wicked serv- 
ant. Thou knewest that I was 
an austere man, taking up what 
I laid not down, and reaping 
that which I did not sow : And 
why then didst thou not give 
my money into the bank, that 
at my coming, I might have 
exacted it with usury ? And he 
sail! to them that stood by : 
Take the pound away from him, 
and give it to him that hath ten 
pounds. And they said to him : 
Lord, he hath ten pounds. But 
I say to )^ou, that to every one 
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shall abound : and from him that 
hath not, even that which he 
hatli, shall be taken from him. 
But as for those my enemies, 
who would not have me reign 
over them, bring them hither, 
and kill them before me. And 
having said these things, he 
went before, going up to Jeru- 
salem. 

14. (Mat. 20. A. D. 33.) 
Now when they went out from 
Jericho, a great multitude fol- 
lowed him. And behold two 
blind men sitting by the way- 
side, heard that Jesus passed 
by, and they cried out, saying : 
O Lord, thou son of David, 
have mercy on us. And the 
multitude rebuked them that 
they should hold their peace. 
But they cried out the more, 
saying: Lord, thou son of 
David, have mercy on us. And 
Jesus stood, and called them, 
and said: What will ye that I 
do to you ? They say to him : 
Lord, that our ej'es be opened. 
And Jesus having compassion 
on them, touched their eyes. 
And immediately they saw, and 
followed him. 

15. (John 11.) Now the 
pasch of the Jews was at hand ; 
and many from the country 
went up to Jerusalem, before 
the pasch, to purify themselves. 
They sought therefore for Je- 
sus ; and they discoursed one 
with another, standing in the 
temple : What think you that 
he is not come to the festival 
day ? And the chief priests 
and the Pharisees had given a 
commandment, that if an}'^ man 



knew where he was, he should 
tell, that they might apprehend 
him. 

(John 12. A. D. 33.) Jesus 
therefore, six days before the 
pasch, came to Bethania, where 
Lazarus had been dead, whom 
Jesus raised to life. And they 
made him a supper there : and 
Martha served: but Lazarus 
was one of them that were at 
table with him. Mar^^ therefore 
took a pound of ointment of 
right spikenard, of great price, 
and anointed the feet of Jesus, 
and wiped his feet with her 
hair ; and the house was filled 
with the odour of the ointment. 
Then one of his disciples, Judas 
Iscariot, he that w^as about to 
betray him, said : Why was not 
this ointment sold for three 
hundred pence, and given to the 
poor? Now he said this, not 
because he cared for the poor ; 
but because he was a thief, and 
having the purse, carried the 
things that were put therein. 
Jesus therefore said : Let her 
alone, that she may keep it 
against the day of my burial. 
For the poor you have always 
with you ; but me you have not 
always. A great multitude 
therefore of the Jews knew 
that he was there; and they 
came, not for Jesus' sake onl}-, 
but that they might see Laz- 
arus, whom he had raised from 
the dead. But the chief priests 
thought to kill Lazarus also: 
because many of the Jews, by 
reason of him, went away, and 
believed in Jesus. 

16. (Mark 11. Sunday, 



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April 2, A. D. 33.) Now on the 
next day, when they drew nigh 
to Jerusalem, and were come to 
Bethphage, unto Mount Olivet, 
then Jesus sent two disciples, 
Saying to them : Go ye into the 
village that is over against you, 
and immediately you shall find 
an ass tied, and a colt with her: 
loose them and bring them to 
me. And if any man shall say 
anything to you, say ye, that 
the Lord hath need of them : 
and forthwith he will let them 
go. And the disciples going, 
did as Jesus commanded them. 
They found the colt tied before 
the gate without, in the meeting 
of two ways : and tbey loose 
him. And some of them that 
stood there, said to them : What 
do you loosing the colt ? Who 
said to them as Jesus had com- 
manded them ; and he let them 
go with them. And they 
brought the colt to Jesus ; and 
the^May their garments on him, 
and he sat upon him. 

(Mat. 21.) Now all this was 
done that it mi2:ht be fulfilled 
which was spoken by the proph- 
et, saying : Tell ye the daugh- 
ter of Ston: Behold thy king 
Cometh to thee^ meek, and sitting 
upon an ass, and a colt the foal 
of her that is used to the yoke. 

(Luke 19.) And as he went, 
they spread their clothes under- 
neath in the way. And when 
he was now coming near the de- 
scent of Mount Olivet, the whole 
multitude of his disciples began 
with joy to praise God with a 
loud voice, for all the mighty 
works they had seen, Saying: 



Blessed be the king who cometh 
in the name of the Lord, peace 
in heaven, and glory on high! 
And some of the Pharisees, 
from amongst the multitude, 
said to him : Master, rebuke thy 
disciples. To whom he said : 
I say to you, that if these shall 
hold their peace, the stones will 
cry out. 

17. (A. D. 33.) Now when 
he drew near, seeing the city, 
he wept over it, saying : If 
thou also hadst known, and 
that in this thy da,y,the things 
that are to thy peace ; but now 
they are hidden from thy eyes. 
For the days shall come npon 
thee : and thy enemies shall cast 
a trench about thee, and com- 
pass thee round, and straiten 
thee on every side. And beat 
thee flat to the ground, and th}'^ 
children who are in thee: and 
they shall not leave in thee a 
stone upon a stone : because 
thou hast not known the time 
of thy visitation. 

18. (Mat. 21.) Now when 
he was come into Jerusalem, 
the whole city was moved, say- 
ing : Who is this? And the 
people said : This is Jesus the 
prophet, from Nazareth of Gal- 
ilee. And there came to him 
the blind and the lame in the 
temple; and he healed them. 
And the chief priests and 
scribes, seeing the wonderful 
things that he did, and the 
children crying in the temple, 
and saying : Hosanna to the son 
of David; were moved with 
indignation, and said to him : 
Hearest thou what these say ? 



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And Jesus said to them : Yea, 
have you never read : Out of 
the mouth of infants and of suck- 
lings thou hast perfected praise ? 
And leaving them, he went out 
of the city into Bethania, and 
remained there. 

19. (John 12.) Now certain 
Gentiles had come to Jerusalem 
for the festival. These therefore 
came to Philip, who was of 
Bethsaida of Galilee, and de- 
sired him, saying : Sir, we 
would see Jesus. Philip Com- 
eth, and telleth Andrew. Again 
Andrew and Philip told Jesus. 
But Jesus answered them, say- 
ing : The hour is come, that the 
son of man should be glorified. 
Amen, amen, I say to you, un- 
less the grain of wheat falling 
into the ground die, itself re- 
maineth alone. But if it die, it 
bringeth forth much fruit. He 
that loveth his life shall lose it ; 
and he that hateth his life in 
this world, keepeth it unto life 
eternal. If any man minister 
to me, let him follow me ; and 
where I am, there also shall my 
minister be. If any man minis- 
ter to me, him will my Father 
honour. 

20. Now is my soul trou- 
bled. And what shall I say ? 
Father, save me from this 
hour. But for this cause I 
came unto this hour. Father, 
glorify thy name. A voice 
therefore came from heaven : I 
have both glorified it, and will 
glorify it again. The multi- 
tude therefore that stood and 
heard, said that it thundered. 
Others said : An angel spoke 



to him. Jesus answered, and 
said : This voice came not be- 
cause of me, but for your sakes. 

21. Now is the judgment 
of the world: now shall the 
prince of this world be cast out. 
And I, if I be lifted up from 
the earth, will draw all things 
to m^^self. (Now this he said, 
signifying what death he should 
die.) The multitude answered 
him : We have heard out of 
the law, that Christ abideth 
for ever ; and how sayest 
thou : The son of man must 
be lifted u])? Who is this son 
of man ? Jesus therefore said 
to them : Yet a little while, 
the light is among you. Walk 
whilst you have the light, that 
the darkness overtake you not. 
And he that walketh in dark- 
ness, knoweth not whither he 
goeth. Whilst you have the 
light, believe in the light, that 
you may be the children of 
light. These things Jesus 
spoke ; and he went away, and 
hid himself from them. 

22. (Mark 11. Monday, 
April 3, A. D. 33.) Now the 
next day when they came out 
from Bethania, he was hungry. 
And when he had seen afar 
off a fig-tree having leaves, he 
came if perhaps he miglit find 
anything on it. And when he 
was come to it, he found noth- 
ing but leaves. For it was not 
the time for figs. And answer- 
ing he said to it : May no man 
hereafter eat fruit of thee any 
more for ever. And his disci- 
ples heard it. And immediate- 
ly the fig-tree withered away. 



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23. Now they came to Je- 
rusalem. And when he was 
entered into the temple, he be- 
gan to cast out them that sold 
and bought in the temple, and 
overthrew the tables of the 
money-changers, and the chairs 
of them that sold doves. And 
he suffered not that any man 
should carry a vessel through 
the temple; And he taught, 
saying to them : Is it not 
written, My house shall he 
called the house of prayer to 
all nations'^ But you have 
made it a den of thieves. 
Which when the chief priests 
and the scribes had heard, they 
sought how they might de- 
stroy him. For they feared 
him, because the whole multi- 
tude was in admiration at his 
doctrine. And when evening 
was come, he went forth out of 
the city. 

24. (Tuesday, April 4, A. 
D. 33.) Now when they passed 
by in the morning they saw the 
lig-tree dried up from the roots. 
And Peter remembering, said 
to him : Rabbi, behold the fig- 
tree, which thou didst curse, is 
withered away. And Jesus 
answering saith to them : Have 
the faith of God. Amen I say 
to 3'ou, that whosoever shall 
say to this mountain. Be thou 
removed and be cast into the 
sea, and shall not stagger in his 
heart, but believe, that whatso- 
ever he saith shall be done ; it 
shall be done unto him. There- 
fore I say unto you, all things, 
whatsoever you ask when ye 
pray, believe that you shall re- 



ceive ; and they shall come un- 
to you. 

25. And when you shall 
stand to pray, forgive, if 3'ou 
have aught against any man ; 
that your Father also, who is 
in heaven, may forgive 3^ou 
3^our sins. But if j^ou will not 
forgive, neither will your 
Father that is in heaven, for- 
give 3'ou 3^our sins. 

26. (Luke 20.) Now it came 
to pass, that on one of the days, 
as he was teaching the people in 
the temple, and preaching the 
gospel, the chief priests and the 
scribes, with the ancients, met 
together, And spoke to him, 
sa3Mng : Tell us, by what au- 
thorit3^ dost thou these things? 
or. Who is he that hath given 
thee this authority ? And Jesus 
answering, said to them : I will 
also ask you one thing. An- 
swer me : The baptism of John 
was it from heaven, or of men ? 
But they thought within them- 
selves, saying': If we shall sa3'' 
From heaven : he will say : Why 
then did 3"ou not believe him ? 
But if we say. Of men^ the 
whole people will stone us : for 
they are persuaded that John 
was a prophet. And the3'' an- 
swered, that they knew not 
whence it was. And Jesus 
said to them : Neither do I tell 
thee by what authority I do 
these things. 

27. (Mat. 21.) But what 
think you ? A certain man had 
two sons; and coming to the 
first, he said : Son, go work to- 
da3'^ in m3" vine3^ard. And he 
answering, said : I will not. 



LIFE OF CHRIST. 



But afterwards, being moved 
with repentance, he went. And 
coming to the other, he said in 
like manner. And he answer- 
ing, said : I go, Sir ; and he 
went not. Which of the two 
did the father's will ? They say 
to him : Tlie first. Jesus saith 
to them : Amen I say to you, 
that the publicans and the har- 
lots shall go into the kingdom 
of God before you. For John 
came to you in the way of 
justice, and you did not believe 
him. But the publicans and 
the harlots believed him : but 
you, seeing it, did not even 
afterwards repent, that you 
might believe him. 

28. Hear 3^e another para- 
ble. There was a man an 
householder, who planted a 
vineyard, and made a hedge 
round about it, and dug in it a 
press, and built a tower, and let 
it out to husbandmen ; and went 
into a strange country. And 
when the time of the fruits drew 
nigh, he sent his servants to the 
husbandmen that they might 
receive the fruits thereof. And 
the husbandmen laying hands 
on his servants, beat one, and 
killed another, and stoned an- 
other. Again he sent other 
servants more than the former; 
and they did to them in like 
manner. And last of all he 
sent to them his son, saying: 
They will reverence my son. 
But the husbandmen seeing the 
son, said among themselves : 
This is the heir: come, let us 
kill him, and we shall have his 
inheritance. And taking him, 



they cast him forth out of the 
vineyard, and killed him. 
When therefore the lord of the 
vineyard shall come, what will 
he do to those husbandmen? 
They say to him : He will 
bring those evil men to an evil 
end ; and will let out his vine- 
yard to other husbandmen, that 
shall render him the fruit in 
due season. Jesus saith to 
them : Have j^ou never read in 
the Scriptures : The stone which 
the builders rejected, the same 
is become the head of the cor- 
ner? By the Lord this has 
been done ; and it is wonderful 
in our eyes. Therefore I say 
to you, that the kingdom of 
God shall be taken from J^ou, 
and shall be giyen to a nation 
yielding the fruits thereof. 
And whosoever shall fall on 
this stone, shall be broken : but 
on whomsoever it shall fall,. it 
shall grind him to powder. 
And when the chief priests and 
Pharisees had heard his para- 
bles, they knew that he spoke 
of them. And seeking to lay 
hands on him, they feared the 
multitudes : because they held 
him as a prophet. And leaving 
him they went their way. 

29. (Mat. 22.) Now Jesus 
answering, spoke again in para- 
bles to them, saying : The king- 
dom of heaven is likened to a 
king, who made a marriage for 
his son. And he sent his serv- 
ants, to call them that were 
invited to the marriage; and 
they would not come. Again 
he sent other servants, saying : 
Tell tbem that were invited. 



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Behold, I have prepared my 
dinner ; my beeves and fallings 
are killed, and all things are 
ready : come ye to the mar- 
riage. But they neglected, and 
went their ways, one to his 
farm, and another to his mer- 
chandise. And the rest laid 
hands on his servants, and hav- 
ing treated them contumelious- 
ly, put them to death. But 
when the king had heard of it, 
he was angry, and sending his 
armies, he destroj^ed those mur- 
derers, and burnt their city. 
Then he saith to his servants : 
The marriage indeed is ready ; 
but they that were invited were 
not worthy. Go ye therefore 
into the highwa}- s ; and as 
many as you sliall find, call to 
the marriage. And his serv- 
ants going forth into the ways, 
gathered together all that they 
found, both bad and good : and 
the marriage was filled with 
guests. And the king went in 
to see the guests : and he saw 
there a man who had not on a 
wedding garment. And he 
saith to him : Friend, how 
camest thou in hither not hav- 
ing on a wedding garment ? 
But he was silent. Then the 
king said to the waiters : Bind 
his hands and feet, and cast 
him into the exterior darkness : 
there shall be weeping and 
gnashing of teeth. For many 
are called, but few are chosen. 

30. Then the Pharisees 
going, consulted among them- 
selves how to insnare him in 
his speech. And they sent to 
him their disciples with the 



Herodians, saying : Master, we 
know that thou art a true 
speaker, and teachest the way 
of God in truth, neither carest 
thou for any man : for thou 
dost not regard the person of 
men. Tell ns therefore what 
dost thou think, is it lawful to 
give tribute to Cesar, or not? 
But Jesus knowing their wick- 
edness, said : Why do yon 
tempt me, 3^e hypocrites? Shew 
me the coin of the tribute. And 
they offered him a penny. And 
Jesus saith to them : Whose 
image and inscription is this? 
They say to him : Cesar's. 
Then he saith to them : Render 
therefore to Cesar the things 
that are Cesar's ; and to God, 
the things that are God's. And 
hearing this they wondered, 
and leaving him, went their 
ways. 

31. That day there came to 
him the Sadducees, who say 
there is no resurrection ; and 
asked him, saying: Master, 
Moses said ; If f, man die 
having no son^ his brother shall 
marry his ivife^ and raise up 
issue to his brother. Now there 
were with us seven brethren : 
and the first having married a 
wife, died ; and not having issue, 
left his wife to his brother. In 
like manner the second, and the 
third, and so on to the seventh. 
And last of all the woman died 
also. At the resurrection there- 
fore whose wife of the seven 
shall she be ? for they all had 
her. And Jesus answering, 
said to them : You err, not 
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the power of God. For in the 
resurrection they shall neither 
marry nor be married ; but 
shall be as the Angels of God 
in heaven. And concerning the 
resurrection of the dead, have 
you not read that which was 
spoken by God, saying to you : 
/ am the God of Abraham^ and 
the God of Isaac , and the God 
of Jacob ? He is not the God of 
the dead, but of the living. 
And the multitudes hearing it, 
were in admiration at his doc- 
trine. 

32. But the Pharisees hear- 
ing that he had silenced the 
Sadducees, came together : And 
one of them, a doctor of the 
law, asked him, tempting him : 
Master, which is the great com- 
mandment in the law ? Jesus 
said to him: Thou shalt love 
the Lord thy God with thy 
whole hearty and icith thy whole 
soul, and with thy whole mind. 
This is the greatest and the 
first commandment. And the 
second is like to this: Thou 
shalt love thy neighbour as thy- 
self On these two command- 
ments dependeth the whole law 
and the prophets. 

33. Now the Pharisees be- 
ing gathered together, Jesus 
asked them. Saying: What 
think you of Christ ? whose son 
is he ? they say to him : Da- 
vid's. He saith to them : How 
then doth David in spirit call 
him Lord, saying : The Lord 
said to my Lord, Sit on my 
right hand, until I make thy 
enemies thy footstool ? If Da v id 
then call him lord, how is he 



his son ? And no man was 
able to answer him a word ; 
neither durst any man from 
that day forth ask him any 
more questions. 

34. (Mat. 23.) Then Jesus 
spoke to the multitudes and to 
his disciples, Sa3ing : The 
Scribes and the Pharisees have 
sitten on the chair of Moses. 
All things therefore whatso- 
ever they sliall say to you, ob- 
serve and do : but according to 
their works do ye not ; for they 
say, and do not. For they 
bind heavy and insupportable 
burdens, and lay them on men's 
shoulders ; but with a finger of 
their own they will not move 
them. And all their works 
they do for to be seen of men. 
For they make their phylacter- 
ies broad, and enlarge their 
fringes. And they love the 
first places at feast, and the 
first chairs in the synagogues, 
and salutations in the market- 
place, and to be called by men, 
Rabbi. But be not you called 
Rabbi. For one is your mas- 
ter ; and all you are brethren. 
And call none your father up- 
on earth ; for one is your father, 
who is in heaven. Neither be 
ye called masters ; for one is 
you master, Christ. He that 
is the greatest among you shall 
be your servant. And whoso- 
ever shall exalt himself shall be 
humbled : and he that shall 
humble himself shall be exalted. 
But wo to your scribes and 
Pharisees, hypocrites ; because 
3^ou shut the kingdom of heaven 
against men, for you yourselves 



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do not enter in ; and those that 
are going in, you suffer not to 
enter. Wo to you scribes and 
Pharisees, hypocrites: because 
you devour the houses of wid- 



ows, praying 



long 



prayers. 



For this you shall receive the 
greater judgment. Wo to you 
scribes and Pharisees, hypo- 
crites; because you go round 
about the sea and the land to 
make one proselyte ; and when 
he is made, you make him the 
child of hell twofold more than 
3^ourselves. 

35. Wo to you blind guides, 
that saj', whosoever shall swear 
by the temple, it is nothing ; 
but he that shall swear by the 
gold of the temple, is a debtor. 
Ye foolish and blind ; for wheth- 
er is greater, the gold, or the 
temple that sanctifieth the 
gold? And whosoever shall 
swear by the altar, it is noth- 
ing ; but whosoever shall swear 
by the gift that is upon it, is a 
debtor. Ye blind : for whether 
is greater, the gift, or the altar 
that sanctifieth the gift? He 
therefore that sweareth by the 
altar, sweareth by it, and by 
all things that are upon it : 
And whosoever shall swear by 
the temple, sweareth by it, and 
by him that dwelleth in it : 
And he that sweareth by heaven, 
sweareth by the throne of God, 
and by him that sitteth there- 
on. 

36. Wo to 3^ou scribes and 
Pharisees, hypocrites ; because 
you tithe mint, and anise, and 
cummin, and have left the 
weightier things of the law ; 



judgment, and mercy, and faith. 
These things you ought to have 
done, and not leave those un- 
done. Blind guides, who strain 
out a gnat, and swallow a 
camel. Wo to you scribes and 
Pharisees, hypocrites; because 
3^ou make clean the outside of 
the cup and of the dish, but 
within you are full of rapine 
and uncleanness. Thou blind 
Pharisee, first make clean the 
inside of the cup and of the 
dish, that the outside may be- 
come clean. Wo to you scribes 
and Pharisees, hypocrites; be- 
cause 3'ou are like to whited 
sepulchres, which outwardly 
ai)pear to men beautiful, but 
within are full of dead men's 
bones, and of all filthiness. So 
you also outwardly indeed ap- 
pear to men just ; but inwardly 
you are full of hypocrisy and 
iniquity. Wo to 3'on scribes 
and Pharisees, hypocrites; that 
build the sepulchres of the 
prophets, and adorn the monu- 
ments of the just, and say : If 
we had been in the days of our 
Fathers, we would not have 
been partakers with them in 
the blood of the prophets. 
Wherefore you are witnesses 
against yourselves, that you 
are the sons of them that killed 
the prophets. Fill ye up then 
the measure of 3'our fathers. 
You serpents, generation of 
vipers, how will you flee from 
the judgment of hell? There- 
fore behold I send to 3^ou 
prophets, and wise men, and 
scribes : and some of them 3^ou 
will put to death and crucify, 



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and some 3'^ou will scourge in 



your synagogues. 



and 



perse- 



cute from city to city : That 
upon you may come all the just 
blood that hath been shed upon 
the earth, from the blood of 
Abel the just, even unto the 
blood of Zacharias the son of 
Barachias, whom you killed be- 
tween the temple and the altar. 
Amen I say to you, all these 
things shall come upon this 
generation. Jerusalem, Jeru- 
salem, thou that killest the 
prophets, and stonest them that 
are sent unto thee, how often 
would I have gathered together 
thy children, as the hen doth 
gather her chickens under her 
wings, and thou wouldest not ? 
Behold, your house shall be 
left to you, desolate. For I 
say to you, you shall not see 
me henceforth till joxx say : 
Blessed is he that cometh in 
the name of the Lord. 

37. (Luke 21.) Now look- 
ing on, he saw the rich men 
cast their gifts into the treas- 
ury. And he saw also a certain 
poor widow casting in two brass 
mites. And he said : Yerily I 
say to you, that this poor widow 
hath cast in more than they all : 
For all these have of their 
abundance cast into the offer- 
ings of God ; but she of her 
want, hath cast in all the living 
that she had. 

38. (John 12.) And where- 
as he had done so many mira- 
cles before them, they believed 
not in him : That tiie saying 
of Isaias the prophet might be 
fulfilled, which he said : Lord, 



who hath believed our hearing f 
and to whom hath the arm of 
the Lord been revealed ? There- 
fore they could not believe, be- 
cause Isaias said again : He 
hath blinded their eyes^ and 
hardened their heart, that they 
should not see with their eyes, 
nor understand ivith their heai^t^ 
and be converted, and, I should 
heal them. These things said 
Isaias, when he saw his glory, 
and spoke of him. However 
many of the chief men also be- 
lieved in him; but because of 
the Pharisees they did not con- 
fess him, that they might not 
be cast out of the sjnagogue. 
For they loved the glory of 
men more than the glory of 
God. But Jesus cried, and 
said : He that believeth in me, 
doth not believe in me, but in 
him that sent me. And he that 
seeth me, seeth him that sent 
me. I am come a light into 
the world ; that whosoever be- 
lieveth in me, may not remain 
in darkness. And if an}^ man 
hear my words, and keep them 
not, I do not judge him : for I 
came not to judge the world, 
but to save the world. He that 
despiseth me, and receiveth not 
my words, hath one that 
judgeth him; the word that I 
have spoken, the same shall 
judge him in the last day. For 
I have not spoken of myself; 
but the Father who sent me, 
he gave me commandment what 
I should sav, and what I should 
speak. And I know that his 
commandment is life everlast- 
ing. The things therefore that 



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I speak, even as the Father 
said unto me, so do I speak. 

39. (Mat. 10.) Then to his 
Apostles he said ; But beware 
of men. For they will deliver 
you up in councils, and they 
will scourge you in their syn- 
agogues. And you shall be 
brought before governors, and 
before kings for my sake, for a 
testimony to them and to the 
gentiles : But when they shall 
deliver you up, take no thought 
how or what to speak: for it 
shall be given you in that hour 
what to speak. For it is not 
you that speak, but the Spirit 
of your Father that speaketh 
in you. The brother also 
shall deliver up the brother to 
death, and the father the son, 
and the children shall rise up 
against their parents, and shall 
put them to death. And you 
shall be hated by all men for my 
name's sake : but he that shall 
persevere unto the end, he shall 
be saved. And when they shall 
persecute you in this city, flee 
into another. Amen I say to 
you, 3^ou shall not finish all the 
cities of Israel, till the son of 
man come. 

40. (Mat. 24.) Now Jesus 
being come out of the temple, 
went away. And his disciples 
came to show him the buildings 
of the temple. And he answer- 
ing, said to them : Do you see 
all these things ? Amen I say 
to you there shall not be left 
here a stone upon a stone that 
shall not be destroyed. 

41. Now when he was sit- 
ting on mount Olivet, the dis- 



ciples came to him privately, 
saying : Tell us when shall 
these things be? and what shall 
be the sign of thy coming, and 
of the consummation of the 
world ? And Jesus answering, 
said to them : Take heed that 
no man seduce you : For many 
will come in my name saying, 
I am Christ: and they will se- 
duce many. And you shall hear 
of wars and rumors of wars. 
See that you be not troubled. 
For these things must come to 
pass, but the end is not 3^et. 
For nation shall rise against 
nation, and kingdom against 
kingdom ; and there shall be 
pestilences, and famines, anS 
earthquakes in places: Now 
all these are the beginnings of 
sorrows. Then shall they de- 
liver you up to be afflicted, and 
shall put you to death : and you 
shall be hated by all nations for 
my name's sake. And then 
shall many be scandalized : and 
shall betray one another: and 
shall hate one another. And 
many false prophets shall rise, 
and shall seduce many. And 
because iniquity hath abound- 
ed, the charity of many shall 
grow cold. But he that shall 
persevere to the end, he shall 
be saved. And this gospel of 
the kingdom, shall be preached 
in the whole world, for a testi- 
mony to all nations, and then 
shall the consummation come. 
When therefore you shall see 
the abomination of desolation^ 
which was spoken of by Daniel 
the prophet, standing in the 
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him understand. Then they 
that are in Jiidea, let them flee 
to the mountains : And he that 
is on the housetop, let him not 
come down to take any thing 
out of his house : And he that 
is in the field, let him not go 
back to take his coat. And wo 
to them that are with child, and 
tliat giye suck in those days. 
But pray that your flight be 
not in the winter, or on the 
sabbath. For there shall be 
then great tribulation, such as 
hath not been from the begin- 
ning of the world until now, 
neither shall be. And unless 
those da3^s had been shortened, 
no flesh should be saved: but 
for the sake of the elect those 
days shall be shortened. 

(Mark 13.) And immediately 
after the tribulation of those 
da3^s, the sun shall be darkened 
and the moon shall not give her 
light, and the stars shall fall 
from heaven, and the powers of 
heaven shall be moved : And 
then shall appear the sign of 
the son of man in heaven : and 
then shall all tribes of the earth 
mourn : and they shall see the 
son of man coming in the clouds 
of heaven with much power and 
majesty. And he shall send his 
Angels with a trumpet, and a 
great voice : and they shall 
gather together his elect from 
the four winds, from the farth- 
est parts of the heavens to the 
utmost bounds of them. And 
from the fig-tree learn a para- 
ble : When the branch thereof 
is now tender, and the leaves 
come forth, you know that sum- 



I mer is nigh. So you also, when 
you shall see all these things, 
know 3'e that it is nigh even at 
the doors. Amen I say to you, 
that this generation shall not 
pass, till all these things be 
done. Heaven and earth shall 
pass, but my w^ords shall not 
pass. 

42. But of that day and 
hour no one knoweth, no not 
the Angels of heaven, but the 
Father alone. And as in the 
days of Noe, so shall also the 
coming of the son of man be. 
For as in the days before the 
flood, they w^ere eating and 
drinking, marrying and giving 
in marriage, even till that day 
in which Noe entered into the 
ark. And they knew not till 
the flood came, and took them 
all away ; so also shall the com- 
ing of the son of man be. Then 
two shall be in the field : one 
shall be taken, and one shall be 
left. Two w^omen shall be grind- 
ing at the mill : one shall be 
taken, and one shall be left. 
Take ye heed, watch and pra3^ 
For ye know not when the time 
is. Even as a man who going 
into a far country, left his 
house ; and gave authority to 
his servants over every work, 
and commanded the porter to 
watch. Watch ye therefore (for 
3' ou know not when the lord of 
the house cometh : at even, or 
at midnight, or at the cock- 
crowing, or in the morning.) 
Lest "coming on a sudden, he 
find 3'ou sleeping. And what I 
sa3^ to 3^ou, I sa3^ to all : Watch. 

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the kingdom of heaven be like 
to ten virgins, who taking their 
lamps went out to meet the 
bridegroom and the bride. 
And live of them were foolish, 
and five wise. But the five 
foolish, having taken their 
lamps, did not take oil with 
them : But the wise took oil 
in their vessels with the lamps. 
And the bridegroom tarrying, 
they all slumbered and slept. 
And at midnight there was a 
cry made: Behold the bride- 
groom Cometh, go ye forth to 
meet him. Then all those vir- 
gins arose and trimmed their 
lamps. And the foolish said to 
the wise : Give us of your oil, 
for our lamps are gone out. 
The wise answered, saying : 
Lest perhaps there be not 
enough for us and for you, go 
ye rather to them that sell, and 
buy for yourselves. Now whilst 
they went to buy, the bride- 
groom came: and they that 
were ready, went in with him 
to the marriage, and the door 
was shut. But at last come 
also the other virgins, saying : 
Lord, Lord, open to us. But 
he answering said; Amen I 
say to you, I know you not. 
Watch ye therefore, because 
3''ou know not the day nor the 
hour. For even as a man go- 
ing into a far country, called 
his servants, and delivered to 
them his goods. And to one 
he gave five talents, and to an- 
other two, and to another one, 
to every one according to his 
proper ability : and immediately 
he took his journey. And he 



that had received the five tal- 
ents, went his way, and traded 
with the same, and gained other 
five. And in like manner he 
that had received the two, gained 
other two. But he that had 
received the one, going his way 
digged into the earth, and hid 
his lord's money. But after a 
long time the lord of those 
servants came, and reckoned 
with them. And he that had 
received the five talents com- 
ing, brouglit other five talents, 
saying : Lord, thou didst de- 
liver to me five talents, behold 
I have gained other five over 
and above. His lord said to 
him : Well done, good and 
faithful servant, because thou 
hast been faithful over a few 
things, I will place thee over 
many things : enter thou into 
the joy of thy lord. And he 
also that had received the two 
talents came and said : Lord, 
thou deliveredst two talents to 
me : behold I have gained other 
two. His lord said to him : 
Well done, good and faithful 
servant : because thou hast been 
faithful over a few things, I will 
place thee over many things : 
enter thou into the joy of thy 
lord. But he that had received 
the one talent, came and said : 
Lord, I know that thou art a 
hard man ; thou reapest where 
thou hast not sown, and gather- 
est where thou hast not strewed. 
And being afraid I went and 
hid thy talent in the earth: be- 
hold here thou hast that which 
is thine. And his Lord answer- 
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slothful servant, thou knewest 
that I reap where I sow not, 
and gather where I have not 
strewed : Thou oughtest there- 
fore to have committed my 
money to the bankers, and at 
my coming I should have re- 
ceived my own with usury. 
Take ye away therefore the tal- 
ent from him, and give it him 
that hath ten talents. For to 
every one that hath shall be 
given, and he shall abound : but 
from him that hath not, that 
also which he seemeth to have 
shall be taken away. And the 
unprofitable servant cast ye out 
into the exterior darkness. 
There shall be weeping and 
gnashing of teeth. 

44. Now when the son of 
man shall come in his majesty, 
and all the angels with him, 
then shall he sit upon the seat 
of his majesty : And all nations 
shall be gathered together be- 
fore him, and he shall separate 
them one from another, as the 
shepherd separateth tlie sheep 
from the goats : And he shall 
set the sheep on his right hand, 
but the goats on his left. Then 
shall the king say to them that 
shall be on his right hand : 
Come, ye blessed of my Father, 
possess you the kingdom pre- 
pared for you from the founda- 
tion of the world. For I was 
hungry, and you gave me to 
eat ; I was thirsty, and you 
gave me to drink; I was a 
stranger, and you took me in : 
Naked, and you covered me: 
sick, and you visited me : I was 
in prison, and you came to me. 

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Then shall the just answer him, 
saying : Lord, when did we 
see thee hungry, and fed thee ; 
thirsty, and gave thee drink? 
And when did we see thee a 
stranger, and took thee in ? or 
naked, and covered thee 1 Or 
when did we see thee sick or in 
prison, and came to thee ? And 
the king answering, shall say 
to them : Amen I say to you, 
as long as you did it to one of 
these my least brethren, you 
did it to me. Then he shall say 
to them also that shall be on his 
left hand : Depart from me, 
you cursed, into everlasting fire 
which was prepared for the 
devil and his angels. For I 
was hungry, and 3^ou gave me 
not to eat: I was thirsty, and 
you gave me not to drink. I 
was a stranger, and you took 
me not in : naked, and you cov- 
ered me not : sick and in prison, 
and you did not visit me. Then 
they also shall answer him, say- 
ing : Lord, when did we see 
thee hungry, or thirsty, or a 
stranger, or naked, or sick, or 
in prison, and did not minister 
to thee ? Then he shall answer 
them, saying: Amen I say to 
you, as long as 3^ou did it not 
to one of these least, neither did 
you do it to me. And these 
shall go into everlasting punish- 
ment : but the just, into life 
everlasting. 

45. (Mat. 26. Wednesday, 
April 5, A. D. 33.) Now *it 
came to pass, when Jesus had 
ended all these words, he said 
to his disciples : You know 
that after two days shall be the 



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pasch, and the son of man shall 
be delivered up to be crucified : 
Then were gathered together 
the chief priests and ancients of 
the people into the court of the 
high-priest, who was called 
Caiphas : And they consulted 
together, that by subtilty they 
might apprehend Jesus, and 
put him to death. But they 
said : Not on the festival day, 



lest perhaps there should be a 
tumult among the people. Then 
went one of the twelve, who was 
called Judas Iscariot, to the 
chief priests, and said to them: 
What will you give me, and 
I will deliver him unto you ? 
But they appointed him thirty 
pieces of silver. And from 
thenceforth he sought oppor- 
tunity to betray him. 



PART III. 



CHRIST'S PASSION AND DEATH. 



CHAPTER L 



THE LAST SUPPER. 



1. (Mark 14. Thursday, 
April 6, A. D. 33.) Now the 
feast of unleavened bread, which 
is called the pasch, was at hand, 
on which it was necessary that 
the pasch should be killed. And 
he sent Peter and John, saying : 
Go, and prepare for us the 
pasch, that we may eat. But 
they said : Where wilt thou 
that we prepare ? And he said 
to them : Behold, as you go 
into the city, there shall meet 
you a man carrying a pitcher 
of water : follow him into the 
house where he entereth in. 
And 3''ou shall say to the good- 
man of the house : The master 
saith to thee. Where is the 
guest-chamber, where I may eat 
the pasch with my disciples ? 
And he will shew 3^ou a large 
dining-room, furnished ; and 
there prepare. And they go- 
ing, found as he had said to 
them, and made ready the pasch. 



2. And when evening was 
come, he cometh with the twelve. 
And when they were at table 
and eating, Jesus saith : Amen 
I say to you, one of you that 
eateth with me shall betray me. 
But they began to be sorrow- 
ful, and to say to him one by 
one : Is it I ? Who saith to 
them : One of the twelve, who 
dippeth with me his hand in the 
dish. And the son of man in- 
deed goeth, as it is written of 
him : but wo to that man by 
whom the son of man shall be 
betraved. It were better for 
him, if that man had not been 
born. 

3. (John 13.) Jesus know- 
ing that his hour was come, 
that he should pass out of this 
world to the Father : having 
loved his own who were in the 
world, he loved them unto the 
end. And when supper was 
done, (the devil having now 

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put into the heart of Judas Is- 
cariot, the son of Simon, to be- 
tray him,) knowing that the 
Father had given him all things 
into his hands, and that he came 
from God, and goeth to God ; 
He riseth from supper, and 
hiyeth aside his garments, and 
liaving taken a towel, girded 
himself. After that, he putteth 
water into a basin, and began 
to wash the feet of the disciples, 
and to wipe them with the 
towel wherewith he was girded. 
He Cometh therefore to Simon 
Peter. And Peter saith to him : 
Lord, dost thou wash my feet ? 
Jesus answered, and said to 
him : What I do thou knowest 
not now ; but thou shalt know 
liereafter. Peter saith to him : 
Thou shalt never wash my feet. 
Jesus answered him : If I wash 
thee not, thou shalt have no 
part with me. Simon Peter 
saith to him : Lord, not only 
my feet, but also my hands and 
my head. Jesus saith to him : 
He that is washed, needeth not 
but to wash his feet, but is clean 
wholly. And you are clean, 
but not all. For he knew who 
he was that would betray him ; 
therefore he said : You are not 
all clean. Then after he had 
washed their feet, and taken 
liis garments, being sat down 
again, he said to them : Know 
you what I have done to you ? 
You call me Master, and Lord ; 
and you say well, for so I am. 
If then I being your Lord and 
Master, have washed your feet ; 
you also ought to wash one an- 
other's feet. For I have given 



you an example, that as I have 
done to you, so you do also. 
Amen, amen, I say to you: The 
servant is not greater than his 
lord ; neither is the apostle 
greater than he that sent him. 
If you know these things, you 
shall be blessed if you do them. 
I speak not of you all : I know 
whom I have chosen. But that 
the scripture may be fulfilled : 
He that eateth bread with me, 
shall lift up his heel against me. 
At present I tell you, before it 
come to pass : that when it 
shall come to pass, you may 
believe that I am he. Amen, 
amen, I say to you, he that re- 
ceiveth whomsoever I send, re- 
ceiveth me ; and he that receiv- 
eth me, receiveth him that sent 
me. 

4. (Luke 22.) Again he 
said to them : With desire I 
have desired to eat this pasch 
with you, before I suffer. For 
I sa}" to you, that from this 
time I will not eat it, till it be 
fulfilled in the kingdom of God. 
And having taken the chalice, 
he gave thanks, and said : Take, 
and divide it among you : For 
I say to you, that I will not 
drink of the fruit of the vine, 
till the kingdom of God come. 
And taking bread, he gave 
thanks, and brake ; and gave 
to them, saying: This is my 
body, wliich is given for 3'ou. 
Do this for a commemoration 
of me. 

(I Cor. 11.) And taking the 
chalice he gave thanks, and 
gave to them, saying : Drink 
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blood of the new testament, 
which shall be shed for many 
unto remission of sins. There- 
fore whosoever shall eat this 
bread, or drink the chalice of 
the Lord unworthily, shall be 
guilty of the body and of the 
blood of the Lord. But let a 
man prove himself : and so let 
him eat of that bread, and drink 
of the chalice. For he that 
eateth anddrinketh unworthily, 
eateth and drinketh judgment 
to himself, not discerning the 
body of the Lord. But 3^et be- 
hold, the hand of him that be- 
trayeth me is with me on the 
table. And the son of man in- 
deed goeth, according to that 
which is determined : but yet, 
wo to that man by whom he 
shall be betrayed. 

5. When Jesus had said 
these things, he was troubled 
in spirit ; and he testified, and 
said : Amen, amen, I say to 
you, one of yow shall betray 
me. The disciples therefore 
looked one upon another, doubt- 
ing of whom he spoke. Now 
there was leaning on Jesus's 
bosom one of his disciples, whom 
Jesus loved. Simon Peter there- 
fore beckoned to him, and said 
to him : Who is it of whom he 
speaketh ? He therefore, lean- 
ing on the breast of Jesus, saith 
to him : Lord, who is it ? Jesus 
answered : He it is to whom 1 
shall reach bread dipped. And 
when he had dipped the bread, 
he gave it to Judas Iscariot, 
the son of Simon. And after 
the morsel, satan entered into 
him. 



(John 13.) And Judas that 
betrayed him, answering said : 
Is it I, Rabbi? He saith to 
him : Thou hast said it. And 
Jesus said to him : That which 
thou dost, do quickly. Now no 
man at the table knew to what 
purpose he said this unto him. 
For some thought, because 
Judas had the purse, that Jesus 
had said to him: Buy those 
things which we have need of 
for the festival day : or that he 
should give something to the 
poor. He therefore having re- 
ceived the morsel, went out im- 
mediately. And it was night. 
When he therefore was gone 
out, Jesus said : Now is the 
Son of man glorified, and God 
is glorified in him. If God be 
glorified in him, God also will 
glorify him in himself; and im- 
mediately wull he glorify him. 

6. (Luke 22.) Now there 
was also a strife amongst them, 
which of them should seem to 
be the greater. And he said to 
them : The kings of the gen- 
tiles lord it over them ; and 
they that have power over them, 
are called beneficent. But you 
not so: but he that is the 
greater among you, let him be- 
come as the 3^ounger; and he 
that is the leader, as he that 
serveth. For which is greater, 
he that sitteth at table, or he 
that serveth ? Is not he that 
sitteth at table? But I am in 
the midst of you, as he that 
serveth : And you are they 
who have continued with me in 
my temptations : And I dis- 
pose to you, as my Father hath 



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disposed to me, a kingdom ; 
That you may eat and drink at 
my table, in my kingdom : and 
may sit upon thrones, judging 
the twelve tribes of Israel. 

7. Little children, yet a little 
while I am with you. You shall 
seek me ; and as I said to the 
Jews : Whither I go you can- 
not come ; so I say to you now. 
A new commandment I give 
unto you : That you love one 
another, as I have loved you, 
that you also love one another. 
By this shall all men know that 
you are my disciples, if you 
have love one for another. 

8. (John 13.) Simon Peter 
saith to him : Lord, whither 
goest thou ? Jesus answered : 
Whither I go, thou canst not 
follow me now ; but thou shalt 
follow hereafter. Peter saith 
to him : Why cannot I follow 
thee now ? I will lay down my 
life for thee. Jesus answered 
him : Wilt thou lay down thj^ 
life for me ? 

(Luke 22.) And the Lord 
said: Simon, Simon, behold 



satan hath desired to have you, 
that he may sift you as wheat : 
But I have prayed for thee, 
that thy faith fail not : and 
thou, being once converted, con- 
firm thy brethren. Who said 
to him : Lord, I am ready to 
go with thee, both into prison, 
and to death. And he said : I 
say to thee, Peter, the cock 
shall not crow this day, till 
thou thrice deniest that thou 
knowest me. And he said to 
them : When I sent you with- 
out purse, and scrip, and shoes, 
did you want any thing? But 
they said : Nothing. Then said 
he unto them : But now he that 
hath a purse, let him take it, 
and likewise a scrip; and he 
that hath not, let him sell his 
coat, and buy a sword. For I 
say to you, that this that is 
written must yet be fulfilled in 
me : And with the wicked was 
he reckoned. For the things 
concerning me have an end. 
But they said : Lord, behold 
here ai^e two swords. And he 
said to them, it is enough. 



CHAPTER IL 



EXHORTATION AND PRAYER. 



1. (John 14.) Continuing 
Jesus said :' Let not your heart 
be troubled. You believe in 
God, believe also in me. In my 
Father's house there are many 
mansions. If not, I would have 



told you, that I go to prepare a 
place for 3^ou. And if I shall 
go, and prepare a place for you, 
I will come again, and will take 
you to myself; that where I 
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whither I go you know, and the 
way you know. Thomas saith 
to him : Lord, we know not 
whither thou goest ; and how 
can we know the way ? Jesus 
saith to him : I am the way, 
and the truth, and the life. No 
man eometh to the Father, but 
by me. If you had known me, 
you would without doubt have 
known my Father also : and 
from henceforth you sliall know 
him, and you have seen him. 
Philip saith to him: Lord, 
shew us the Father, and it is 
enough for us. Jesus saith to 
him : So long a time have I 
been with you, and have you 
not known me ? Philip, he tliat 
seeth me, seeth the Father also. 
How sayest thou, shew us the 
Father? Do you not believe, 
that I am in the Father, and 
the Father in me ? The words 
that I speak to you, I speak 
not of mvself. But the Father 
who abideth in me, he doth the 
works. Believe you not that I 
am in the Father, and the 
Father in me? Otherwise be- 
lieve for the very works' sake. 
Amen, amen, I say to you, he 
that believeth in me, the works 
that I do, he also shall do ; and 
greater than these shall he do. 
Because I go to the Father : 
and whatsoever you shall ask 
the Father in my name, that 
will I do : that the Father may 
be glorified in the Son. If you 
shall ask me any thing in my 
name, that I will do. 

2. If you love me, keep my 
commandments. And I will 
ask the Father, and he shall 



give you another Paraclete, that 
he may abide with 3^ou for ever. 
The spirit of truth, whom the 
world cannot receive, because 
it seeth him not, nor knoweth 
him : but you shall know him ; 
because he shall abide with 3'ou, 
and shall be in you. I will not 
leave you orphans, I will come 
to you. Yet a little while : and 
the world seeth me no more. 
But you see me : because I live, 
and you shall live. In that day 
you shall know, that I am in 
my Father, and you in me, and 
I in you. He that hath my 
commandments, and keepeth 
them ; he it is that loveth me. 
And he that loveth me, shall be 
loved of m}^ Father : and I will 
love him, and will manifest my- 
self to him. Judas saith to 
him, not the Iscariot : Lord, 
how is it, that thou wilt mani- 
fest thyself to us, and not to 
the w^orld? Jesus answered, 
and said to him : If any one 
love me, he will keep my w^ord, 
and my Father will love him, 
and we will come to him, and 
will make our abode with him. 
He that loveth me not, keepeth 
not my words. And the word 
which you have heard, is not 
mine ; but the Father's who 
sent me. These things have I 
spoken to you, abiding with 
you. But the Paraclete, the 
'Holy Ghost whom the Father 
will send in my name, he will 
teach you all things, and bring 
all things to your mind, what- 
soever I shall have said to you. 
3. Peace I leave with you, 
my peace I give unto you : not 



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as the world giveth, do I give 
unto you. Let not your heart 
be troubled, nor let it be afraid. 
You have heard that I said to 
3^ou : I go away, and I come 
unto you. If you loved me, 
you would indeed be glad, be- 
cause I go to the Father : for 
the Father is greater than I. 
And now I have told you before 
it come to pass : that when it 
shall come to pass, you may 
believe. I will not now speak 
many things with you. For 
the prince of this world comet h, 
and in me he hath not any 
thing. But that the world may 
know, that I love the Father : 
and as the Father hath given 
me commandment, so do I : 
Arise, let us go hence. 

4. (John 15.) I am the true 
vine ; and my Father is the 
Jiusbandman. Every branch in 
me, that beareth not fruit, he 
will take away : and every one 
that beareth fruit, he will purge 
it, that it ma}^ bring forth more 
fruit. Now you are clean by 
reason of the word, which I 
have spoken to you. Abide in 
me, and I in you. As the 
branch cannot bear fruit of it- 
self, unless it abide in the vine, 
so neither can you, unless 3^ on 
abide in me. I am the vine ; 
you the branches : he that 
abideth in me, and I in him, 
the same beareth much fruit : 
for without me you can do 
nothing. If any one abide not 
in me, he shall be cast forth as 
a branch, and shall wither, and 
they shall gather him up, and 
cast him into the fire, and he 



burneth. If you abide in me, 
and my words abide in 3^ou, 
you shall ask whatever you 
will, and it shall be done unto 
you. In this is my Father 
glorified ; that you bring forth 
very much fruit, and become 
my disciples. As the Father 
hath loved me, I also have loved 
you. Abide in my love. If you 
keep my commandments, you 
shall abide in my love; as I 
also have kept my Father's 
commandments, and do abide 
in his love. These things I 
have spoken to you, that m}'' 
joy may be in you, and your 
joy may be filled. This is my 
commandment, that you love 
one another, as I have loved 
you. Greater love than this no 
man hath, that a man lay down 
his life for his friends. You 
are my friends, if you do the 
things that I command you. I 
will not now call j'ou servants : 
for the servant knoweth not 
what his Lord doth. But I 
have called you friends : be- 
cause all things whatsoever I 
have heard of my Father, I 
have made known to you. 

5. You have not chosen me : 
but I have chosen you ; and have 
appointed you, that you should 
go, and should bring forth fruit ; 
and your fruit should remain : 
that whatsoever you shall ask 
of the Father in my name, he 
may give it you. These things 
I command you, that 3;0U love 
one another. 

6. If the world hate you, 
know \'e, that it hath hated me 
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of the world, the world would 
love its own : but because you 
are not of the world, but I have 
chosen you out of the world, 
therefore the world hateth you. 
Remember my word that I said 
to 3^ou : The servant is not 
greater than his master. If 
they have persecuted me, they 
will also persecute you : if they 
have kept my word, they will 
keep yours also. But all these 
things they will do to you for 
my name's sake : because they 
know not him that sent me. If 
I had not come, and spoken to 
them, they would not have sin ; 
but now they have no excuse 
for their sin. He that hateth 
me, hateth my Father also. If 
I had not done among them the 
works that no other man hath 
done, they would not have sin ; 
but now the}'' have both seen 
and hated both me and my 
Father. But that the word 
may be fulfilled which is written 
in their law : They hated me 
without cause, 

7. But when the Paraclete 
cometh, whom I will send you 
from the Father, the Spirit of 
truth, who proceedeth from the 
Father, he shall give testimony 
of me. And you shall give tes- 
timony, because you are with 
me from the beginning. 

(John 16.) These things have 
I spoken to you, that you may 
not be scandalized. They will 
put yoii out of the synagogues : 
yea, the hour cometh, that who- 
soever killeth 3^ou, will think 
that he doth a service to God. 
And these things will they do 



to you ; because they have not 
known the Father, nor me. But 
these things I have told you, 
that when the hour shall come, 
you may remember that I told 
you of them. But I told you 
not these things from the be- 
ginning, because I was with 
you. And now I go to him 
that sent me, and none of you 
asketh me : Whither goest 
thou ? But because I have 
spoken these things to you, 
sorrow hath filled your heart. 
But I tell you the truth : it is 
expedient to you that I go : for 
if I go not, the Paraclete will 
not come to j'ou ; but if I go, I 
will send him to you. And 
when he is come, he will con- 
vince the world of sin, and of 
justice, and of judgment. Of 
sin : because they believed not 
in me. And of justice: because 
I go to the Father ; and you 
shall see me no longer. And 
of judgment : because the prince 
of this world is already judged. 
I have 3^et many things to say 
to you : but you cannot bear 
them now. But when he, the 
Spirit of truth, is come, he will 
teach you all truth. For he 
shall not speak of himself; but 
what things soever he shall 
hear, he shall speak ; and the 
things that are to come, he 
shall shew you. He shall glo- 
rify me ; because he shall re- 
ceive of mine, and shall shew it 
to you. All things whatsoever 
the Father hath, are mine. 
Therefore I said, that he shall 
receive of mine, and shew it to 
you. 



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8. A little while, and now 
you shall not see me ; and 
again a little while, and you 
shall see me : because I go to 
the Father. Then some of his 
disciples said one to another : 
What is this that he saith to 
us : A little while, and you 
shall not see me ; and again a 
little while, and you shall see 
me, and, because I go to the 
Father ? They said therefore : 
What is this that he saith, A 
little while? we know not what 
he speaketh. And Jesus knew 
that they had a mind to ask 
him ; and he said to them : Of 
this do you inquire among 
yourselves, because I said : A 
little while, and you shall not 
see me ; and again a little while, 
and you shall see me? Amen, 
amen, I say to you, that you 
shall lament and weep, but the 
world shall rejoice ; and you 
shall be made sorrowful, but 
your sorrow shall be turned in- 
to joy. A woman, when she is 
in labour, hath sorrow, because 
her hour is come ; but when she 
hath brought forth the child, 
she remembereth no more the 
anguish, for joy that a man is 
born into the world. So also 
you now indeed have sorrow ; 
but I will see you again, and 
your heart shall rejoice; and 
your joy no man shall take from 
you. 

9. And in that day 3^ou 
shall not ask me any thing. 
Amen, amen, I say to you : if 
you ask the Father any thing 
in my name, he will give it you. 
Hitherto you have not asked 



any thing in my name. Ask, 
and you shall receive ; that your 
joy may be full. These things 
I have spoken to you in prov- 
erbs. The hour cometh, when 
I will no more speak to you in 
proverbs, but will shew you 
plainly of the Father. In that 
day you shall ask in my name ; 
and I say not to you, that I 
will ask the Father for you : 
For the Father himself loveth 
you, because you have loved 
me, and have believed that I 
came out from God. 

10. I came forth from the 
Father, and am come into the 
world : again I leave the world, 
and I go to the Father. His 
disciples say to him : Behold, 
now thou speakest plainly, and 
speakest no proverb. Now we 
know that thou knowest all 
things, and thou needest not 
that au}^ man should ask thee. 
Bj' this we believe that thou 
camest forth from God. Jesus 
answered them : Do 3"ou now 
believe ? Behold, the hour 
cometh, and it is now come, 
that 3^ou shall be scattered 
every man to his own, and 
shall leave me alone ; and j-et 
I am not alone, because the 
Father is with me. These 
things I have spoken to you, 
that in me you may have peace. 
In the world you shall have 
distress : but have confidence, I 
have overcome the world. 

11. (John 17.) These things 
Jesus spoke, and lifting up his 
eyes to heaven, he said: 
Father, the hour is come, 
glorify thy Son, that thy Son 



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may glorify thee. As thou 
hast given him power over all 
flesh, that he may give eternal 
life to all whom thou hast given 
him. Now this is eternal life : 
That they may know thee, the 
only true God, and Jesus 
Christ, whom thou hast sent. 
I have glorified thee on the 
* earth ; I have finished the 
work which thou gavest me to 
do. And now glorify thou me, 
O Father with thyself, with the 
glory which I had, before the 
world was, with thee. I have 
manifested thy name to the 
men whom thou hast given me 
out of the world. Thine they 
were, and to me thou gavest 
them ; and they have kept thy 
word. Now they have known, 
that all things which thou hast 
given me, are from thee : Be- 
cause the words which thou 
gavest me, I have given to 
them ; and they have received 
them, and have known in very 
deed that I came out from thee, 
and they have believed that 
thou didst send me. I pray 
for them : I pray not for the 
world, but for them whom thou 
hast given me : because they 
are thine : And all my things 
are thine, and thine are mine; 
and I am glorified in them. 
And now I am not in the 
world, and these are in the 
world, and I come to thee. 
Holy Father, keep them in thy 
name whom thou hast given 
me; that the}'' may be one, 
as we also are. While I was 
with them, I kept them in thy 
name. Those whom thou gavest 



me have I kept ; and none of 
them is lost, but the son of per- 
dition, that the scripture may 
be fulfilled. And now I come 
to thee ; and these things I 
speak in the world, that they 
may have my joy filled in them- 
selves. Sanctify them in truth. 
Thy word is truth. As thou 
hast sent me into the world, I 
also have sent them into the 
world. And for them do I 
sanctify myself, that they also 
may be sanctified in truth. 
And not for them only do I 
pray, but for them also who 
through their word shall be- 
lieve in me; That they all 
may be one, as thou. Father, in 
me, and I in thee; that they 
also may be one in us ; that the 
world may believe that thou 
hast sent me. And the glory 
which thou hast given me, I 
have given to them ; that they 
may be one, as we also are one : 
I in them, and thou in me ; that 
they may be made perfect in 
one : and the world may know 
that thou hast sent me, and 
hast loved them, as thou hast 
also loved me. Father, I will 
that where I am, they also 
whom thou hast given me may 
be with me ; that they may see 
my glory which thou hast given 
me, because thou hast loved me 
before the creation of the w^orld. 
Just Father, the world hath not 
known thee ; but I have known 
thee : and these have known 
that thou hast sent me. And I 
have made known thy name to 
them, and will make it known ; 
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hast loved me, may be in them, 
and I in them. 

12. (Mark 14.) When Jesus 
had said these things, And 
when they had said an hymn, 
they went forth to the mount of 
olives. And Jesus saith to 
them : You will all be scan- 
dalized in my regard this 
night; for it is written, I will 
strike the shepherd and the 
sheep shall he dispersed. But 
after I shall be risen again, I 



will go before you into Galilee. 
But Peter saith to him : Al- 
though all shall be scandalized 
in thee, yet not I. And Jesus 
saith to him : Amen I say to 
thee, to-day, even in this night, 
before the cock crow twice, 
thou shalt deny me thrice. But 
he spoke the more vehemently : 
Although I should die together 
with thee, I will not deny thee. 
And in like manner also said 
they all. 



CHAPTER III. 



GETHSEMANI. 



1. (Mat. 26.) Then Jesus 
came with them into a country 
place which is called Gethsem- 
ani; and he said to his dis- 
ciples : Sit you here, till I go 
yonder and pray. And taking 
with him Peter and the two 
sons of Zebedee, he began to 
grow sorrowful and to be sad. 
Then he saith to them : My 
soul is sorrowful even unto 
death : Stay you here, and 
watch with me. And going a 
little further, he fell upon his 
face, praying, and saying : My 
Father, if it be possible, let this 
chalice pass from me. Never- 
theless not as I will, but as thou 
wilt. And he cometh to his 
disciples, and findeth them 
asleep, and he saith to Peter : 
What ? Could 3^ou not watch 
one hour with me ? Watch ye, 



and pray that ye enter not into 
temptation. The spirit indeed 
is willing, but the flesh weak. 
Again the second time, he went 
and praj'ed, saying : My Fa- 
ther, if this chalice may not pass 
away, but I must drink it, thy 
will be done. And he cometh 
again, and findeth them sleep- 
ing : for their e3'es were heavy. 
And leaving them, he went 
again : and he prajed the third 
time, saying the self-same word. 
Then he cometh to his disciples, 
and saith to them : Sleep j'e 
now and take your rest ; 
behold the hour is at hand, and 
the son of man shall be betrayed 
into the hands of sinners. Rise, 
let us go : behold he is at hand 
that will betray me. 

2. As he yet spoke, behold 
Judas, one of the twelve came, 



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and with him a great multitude 
with swords aud clubs, sent 
from the chief priests and the 
ancients of the people. And he 
that betrayed him, gave them 
a sign, saying : Whomsoever I 
shall kiss, that is he, hold him 
fast. And forthwith coming to 
Jesus, he said : Hail Rabbi. 
And he kissed him. And 
Jesus said to him : Friend, 
whereto art thou come ? Whom 
seek ye ? 

(John 18.) They answered 
him : Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus 
saith to them : I am he. And 
Judas also, who betrayed him, 
stood with them. As soon 
therefore as he had said to 
them : I am he ; they went 
backward, and fell to the 
ground. Again therefore he 
asked them: Whom seek ye? 
And they said : Jesus of Naza- 
reth. Jesus answered, I have 
told you that I am he. If 
therefore you seek me, let these 
go their wav. 

3. (Luke22.) And they that 
were about him, seeing what 
would follow, said to him : 
Lord shall we strike with the 
sword ? 

(John 18.) Then Simon 
Peter, having a sword, drew 
it, and struck the servant of 
the high-priest, and cut off his 
right ear. And the name of 
the servant was Malchus. 
Jesus therefore said to Peter ; 



Put up thy sword into the 
scabbard. The chalice which 
my Father hath given me, shall 
I not drink it ? 

(Mat. 26.) Put up again thy 
sword into its place: For all 
that take the sword shall 
perish with the sword. Tliink- 
est thou that I cannot ask my 
Father, and he will give me 
presently more than twelve 
legions of Angels ? How then 
shall the scriptures be fulfilled, 
that so it must be done ? 

(Luke 22.) And when he 
had touched his ear, he healed 
him. 

4. And Jesus said to the 
chief priests, and magistrates of 
the temple, and the ancients, 
that were come unto him : Are 
3'e come out, as it were against 
a thief, with swords and clubs ? 
When I was daily with 3^ou in 
the temple, 3 ou did not stretch 
forth your hands against me : 
but this is your hour, and the 
power of darkness. And ap- 
prehending him, they led him 
to the high-priest's house. But 
Peter followed afar off. Then 
the disciples all leaving him, 
fled. 

(Mark 14.) And a certain 
3'oung man followed him, hav- 
ing a linen cloth cast about his 
naked body ; and they laid hold 
on him. But he, casting off the 
linen cloth, fled from them 
naked. 



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CHAPTER IV, 



BEFORE THE TRIBUNAL. 



1. (John 18.) Then the 
band and the tribune, and the 
servants of the Jews, took 
Jesus, and bound him : And 
they led him away to Annas 
lirst, for he was father-in-law to 
Caipbas, who was the high- 
priest of that year. Now 
Caiphas was he who had given 
the counsel to the Jews : That 
it was expedient that one man 
should die for the people. 

2. And Simon Peter fol- 
lowed Jesus, and so did an- 
other disciple. And that dis- 
ciple was known to the high- 
priest, and went in with Jesus 
into the court of the high- 
priest. But Peter stood at the 
door without. The other dis- 
ciple therefore, who was known 
to the high-priest, went out, 
and spoke to the portress, and 
brought in Peter. 

(Luke 22.) And when they 
had kindled a fire in the midst 
of the hall, and were sitting 
about it, Peter was in the 
midst of them. Whom when a 
certain servant-maid had seen 
sitting at the light, and had 
earnestly beheld him : she said : 
This man also was with him. 
But he denied him, saying: 
Woman, I know him not. And 
he went forth before the court ; 
and the cock crew. 

3. (John 18.) The high- 
priest therefore asked Jesus of 



his disciples, and of his doc- 
trine. Jesus answered him : I 
have spoken openlj'' to the 
world : I have always taught 
in the synagogue, and in the 
temple, whither all the Jews 
resort ; and in secret I have 
spoken nothing. Why askest 
thou me? ask them who have 
heard what I have spoken unto 
them : behold they know what 
things I have said. And when 
he had said these things, one of 
the servants standing by^ gave 
Jesus a blow, saving : Ansvver- 
est thou the high-priest so? 
Jesus answered him; If I have 
spoken evil, give testimony of 
the evil ; but if well, why 
strikest thou me ? And Annas 
sent him bound to Caiphas the 
high-priest, where the scribes 
and the ancients were assem- 
bled. 

4. (Mat. 26.) Now the chief 
priests and the whole council 
souo^ht false witness against 
Jesus, that they might put him 
to death : And they found not, 
whereas many false witnesses 
had come in. And last of all 
there came two false witnesses : 
And they said : This man said, 
I am able to destroy the temple 
of God, and after three days to 
rebuild it. And the high-priest 
rising up, said to him : Answer- 
est thou nothing to the things 
w^hich these witness against 



LIFE OF CHRIST. 



Ill 



thee? But Jesus held his 
peace. And the high-priest 
said to him: I adjure thee by 
the living God, that thou tell 
lis if thou be the Christ the Son 
of God. Jesus saith to him : 
Thou hast said it. Neverthe- 
less I say to you, hereafter you 
shall see the son of man sit- 
ting on the right hand of the 
power of God, and coming in 
the clouds of heaven. Then 
the high-priest rent his gar- 
ments, saying : He hath blas- 
phemed ; what further need 
have we of witnesses? Be- 
hold, now you have heard the 
blasphemy : What think you ? 
But they answering, said : He 
is guilty of death. 

5. 13 ut Peter sat without in 
the court : And as he went out 
of the gate, another maid saw 
him, and she saith to them that 
were there : This man also was 
with Jesus of Nazareth. And 
again he denied with an oath : 
That I know not the man. And 
after a little while they came 
that stood by, and said to Peter : 
Surely thou also art one of 
them ; for even thy speech doth 
discover thee. Then he began 
to curse and to swear that he 
knew not the man. And im- 
mediately the cock crew. And 
Peter remembered the word of 
Jesus which he had said : Be- 
fore the cock crow twice thou 
wilt deny me thrice. And going 
forth, he wept bitterly. 

6. (Luke 22.) And the men 
that held Jesus, mocked him, 
and struck him. And they 
blindfolded him, and smote his 



face. And they asked him, say- 
ing : Prophesy, who is it that 
struck thee ? And blaspheming, 
many other things they said 
against him. 

7. And as soon as it was 
daj^, the ancients of the peo- 
ple, and the chief priests and 
scribes, came together ; and 
the3^ brought him into their 
council, saying : If thou be the 
Christ, tell us. And he saith 
to them : If I shall tell you, you 
will not believe me. And if I 
shall also ask 3 ou, 3^ou will not 
answer me, nor let me go. But 
hereafter the son of man shall 
be sitting on the right hand of 
the power of God. Then said 
the3' all : Art thou then the Son 
of God ? Who said : You say, 
that I am. And they said : 
What need we any farther tes- 
timony ? for we ourselves haA^e 
heard it from his own mouth. 
Then they led Jesus from 
Caiphas to the governor's hall. 

8. (Mat. 27.) Then Judas, 
who betrayed him, seeing that 
he was condemned, repenting 
himself, brought back the thirt3^ 
pieces of silver to the chief 
priests and ancients, saying : 
I have sinned in betraying in- 
nocent blood. But they said : 
What is that to us ? look thou 
to it. And casting down the 
pieces of silver in the temple, 
he departed : and went and 
hanged himself with an halter. 
But the chief priests having 
taken the pieces of silver, said : 
It is not lawful to put them in- 
to the corbona, because it is the 
price of blood. And after the3' 



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had consulted together, they 
bought with them the potter's 
field, to be a burying-place for 
strangers. For this cause that 
field was called haceldama, that 
is, the field of blood, even to 
this day. Then was fulfilled 
that which was spoken by Jere- 



mias the prophet, saying : And 
they took the thirty pieces of 
silver^ the price of him that was 
prizedywhom they prized of the 
children of Israel, And they 
gave them unto the potter'' s 
field, as the Lord appointed to 
me. 



CHAPTER Y. 



SCOURGE AND CROWN. 



1. (John 18. Friday, April 
T, A. D. 33.) Now it was 
morning ; and they went not 
into the hall, that they might 
not be defiled, but that they 
might eat the pasch. Pilate 
therefore went out to them, 
and said : What accusation 
bring you against this man? 
They answered, and said to 
him : If he were not a male- 
factor, we would not have de- 
livered him up to thee. Pilate 
therefore said to them : Take 
him you, and judge him ac- 
cording to your law. The 
Jews therefore said to him : It 
is not lawful for us to put 
any man to death ; That the 
word of Jesus might be ful- 
filled, which he said, signifying 
what death he should die. 

2, Pilate therefore went in- 
to the hall again, and called 
Jesus, and said to him : Art 
thou the king of the Jews? 
Jesus answered: Sayest thou 
this thing of thyself, or have 



others told it thee of me ? 
Pilate answered : Am I a Jew ? 
Thy own nation, and the chief 
priests, have delivered thee up 
to me : what hast thou done ? 
Jesus answered : My kingdom 
is not of this world. If my 
kingdom were of this world, my 
servants would certainly strive 
that I should not be delivered 
to the Jews : but now my king- 
dom is not from hence. Pilate 
therefore said to him : Art thou 
a king then ? Jesus answered : 
Thou sa3'est that I am a king. 
For this was I born, and for 
this came I into the world; 
that I should give testimony 'to 
the truth. Every one that is 
of the truth, heareth my voice. 
Pilate saith to him: What is 
truth ? And when he said this, 
he went out again to the Jews, 
and saith to them : I find no 
cause in him. 

(Mat. 27.) And Jesus stood 
before the governor, and the 
governor asked him, saying: 



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Art thou the khig of the Jews ? 
Jesus saith to him : Thou 
sayest it. And when he was 
accused by the chief priests 
and ancients, he answered noth- 
ing. Then Pilate saith to him : 
Dost not thou hear how great 
testimonies they allege against 
thee ? And he answered him to 
never a word ; so that the gov- 
ernor wondered exceed ingh^ 

(Luke 23.) And they began 
to accuse him, saying : We 
have found this man pervert- 
ing our nation, and forbidding 
to give tribute to Cesar, and 
saying that he is Christ the 
king. And Pilate asked him, 
saying : Art thou the king of 
the Jews ? But he answering, 
said : Thou sayest it. And 
Pilate said to the chief priests 
and to the multitudes: I find 
no cause in this man. But 
they were more earnest, say- 
ing : He stirreth up the peo- 
ple, teaching throughout all 
Judea, beginning from Galilee 
to this place. But Pilate hear- 
ing Galilee, asked if the man 
were of Galilee ? And when he 
understood that he was of 
Herod's jurisdiction, he sent 
hjm away to Herod, who was 
also himself at Jerusalem, in 
those days. 

3. Now Herod seeing Jesus, 
was very glad ; for he was de- 
sirous of a long time to see 
him, because he had heard 
many things of him ; and he 
hoped to see some sign wrought 
by him. And he questioned 
him in many words. But he 



answered 



him nothing. 



And 



the chief priests and the scribes 
stood b}', earnestly accusing 
him. And Herod with his army 
set him at nought, and mocked 
him, putting on him a white 
garment, and sent him back to 
Pilate. And Herod and Pilate 
were made friends, that same 
day ; for before they were ene- 
mies one to another. 

4. (Mat. 27.) Now upon 
the solemn day the governor 
was accustomed to release to 
the people one prisoner, whom 
they would. And he had then 
a notorious prisoner, that was 
called Barabbas. They there- 
fore being gathered together, 
Pilate said: Whom will you 
that I release to 3'ou, Barab- 
bas, or Jesus that is called 
Christ? For he knew that for 
envy they had delivered him. 
And as he was sitting in the 
place of judgment, his wife sent 
to him, saying : Have thou 
nothing to do with that just 
man ; for I have suffered many 
things this day in a dream be- 
cause of him. But the chief 
priests and ancients persuaded 
the people, that they should 
ask Barabbas, and make Jesus 
away. And the governor an- 
swering, said to them : Wheth- 
er will you of the two to be re- 
leased unto you ? But they 
said, Barabbas. Pilate saith to 
them : What shall I do then 
with Jesus that is called Christ ? 
they say all : Let him be cruci- 
fied. The governor said to 
them : Why, what evil hath he 
done? But they cried out the 
more, saying : Let him be cru- 



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cified. And Pilate seeing that 
he prevailed nothing, but that 
rather a tumult was made ; 
taking water washed his hands 
before the people, saying : I am 
innocent of the blood of this 
just man ; look you to it. And 
the whole people answering, 
said : His blood be upon us and 
upon our children. 

5. Then he released to them 
Barabbas and took Jesus, and 
scourged him. Then the sol- 
diers of the governor taking 
Jesus into the hall, gathered to- 
gether unto him the whole 
band ; And stripping him, 
they put a scarlet cloak about 
him. And platting a crown of 
thorns, they put it upon his 
head, and a reed in his right 
hand. And bowing the knee 
before him, they mocked him, 
sa3dng : Hail, king of the Jews. 
And spitting upon him, the}^ 
took the reed, and struck his 
head. 

6. (John 19.) Pilate there- 
fore went forth again, and saith 
to them : Behold, I bring him 
forth unto you, that you may 
know that I find no cause in 
him. (Jesus therefore came 
forth, bearing the crown of 
thorns and the purple gar- 
ment.) And he saith to them : 
Behold the Man. When the 
chief priests therefore, and the 
servants, had seen him, they 
cried out, saying : Crucify him, 
crucify him. Pilate saith to 



him 



you, 



and 



them : Take 

crucify him : for I find no 
cause in him. The Jews an- 
swered him : We have a law ; 



and according to the law he 
ought to die, because he made 
himself the Son of God. When 
Pilate therefore had heard this 
saying, he feared the more. 
And he entered into the hall 
again, and he said to Jesus: 
Whence art thou ? But Jesus 
gave him no answer. Pilate 
therefore saith to him : Speak- 
est thou not to me ? knowest 
thou not that I have power to 
crucif}^ thee, and I have power 
to release thee? Jesus an- 
swered ; Thou shouldst not 
have any power against me, 
unless it were given thee from 
above. Therefore, he that hath 
delivered me to thee, hath the 
greater sin. And from hence- 
forth Pilate sought to release 
him. But the Jews cried out, 
sa3'ing : If thou release this 
man, thou art not Cesar's 
friend. For whosoever maketh 
himself a king,speaketh against 
Cesar. Now when Pilate had 
heard these words, he brought 
Jesus forth, and sat down In 
the judgment seat, in the place 
that is called Lithostrotos, and 
in Hebrew Gabbatha. And it 
was the parasceve of the pasch 
about the sixth hour, and Ije 
saith to the Jews : Behold your 
king. But they cried out : 
Away with him, awa}^ with 
him ; crucify him. Pilate saith 
to them : shall I crucify your 
king? The chief priests an- 
swered : We have no king but 
Cesar. Then therefore he de- 
livered him to them to be cru- 
cified. And they took Jesus 
and led him forth. 



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TAKE UP THY CROSS. 



1. (Luke 23.) Now as they 
led him away, they laid hold 
of one Simon of Cyrene, com- 
ing from the country ; and 
they laid the cross on him, to 
carry after Jesus. And there 
were also two other malefac- 
tors led with him to be put to 
death. 

2. And there followed him 
a great multitude of people, and 
of women, who bewailed and la- 
mented him. But Jesus turn- 
ing to them, said : Daughters 



of Jerusalem, weep not over 
me ; but weep for yourselves, 
and for your children. For be- 
hold, the days shall come, 
wherein they will say : Blessed 
are the barren, and the wombs 
that have not borne, and the 
paps that have not given suck. 
Then shall they begin to say to 
the mountains : Fall upon us ; 
and to the hills : Cover us. For 
if in the green wood they do 
these things, what shall be 
done in the dry. 



CHAPTER VIL 



IT IS FINISHED. 



1. (Mark 15.) And they 
bring him into the place called 
Golgotha, which being inter- 
preted is, the place of Calvary. 
And they gave him to drink 
wine mingled with myrrh ; but 
he took it not. And with him 
they crucify two thieves; the 
one on his right hand, and the 
other on his left. And the 
Scripture was fulfilled, which 
saith : And with the wicked he 
was reputed, 

2. And crucifying him, they 
divided his garments, casting 
lots upon them, what every 



man should take. And Jesus 
said : Father, forgive them, for 
they know not what they do. 

3. (John 19.) Now Pilate 
wrote a title also, and he put 
it upon the cross. And the 
writing was: Jesus of Naza- 
reth, THE King of the Jews. 
This title therefore many of 
the Jews did read : because 
the place where Jesus was 
crucified was nigh to the city : 
and it was written in He- 
brew, in Greek, and in Latin. 
Then the chief priests of the 
Jews said to Pilate : Write 



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not, The King of the Jews; 
but that he said, I am the king 
of the Jews. Pilate answered : 
What I have written, I have 
written. 

4. The soldiers therefore, 
when they had crucified him, 
took his garments (and they 
made four parts, to every sol- 
dier a part,) and also his coat. 
Now the coat was without seam, 
woven from the top through- 
out. They said then one to an- 
other : Let us not cut it, but 
let us cast lots for it, whose it 
shall be ; that the scripture 
might be fulfilled, saying : 
They have parted my gar- 
ments among them^ and upon 
my vesture they have cast lot. 
And the soldiers indeed did 
these things. 

5. (Luke 23.) Now the 
people stood beholding, and 
the rulers with them derided 
him, sayiiig : He saved others ; 
let him save himself, if he be 
Christ, the elect of God. And 
the soldiers also mocked him, 
coining to him, and offering 
liim vinegar, And saying : If 
thou be the king of the Jews, 
save thyself. 

6. And one of those rob- 
bers who were hanged, blas- 
phemed him, sajnng : If thou 
be Christ, save thyself and us. 
But the other answering, re- 
buked him, saying : Neither 
dost thou fear God, seeing thou 
art under the same condemna- 
tion ? And we indeed justly, 
for we receive the due reward 
of our deeds ; but this man 
hath done no evil. And he 



said to Jesus : Lord, remember 
me when thou shalt come into 
thy kingdom. And Jesus said 
to him : Amen I say to thee, 
this day thou shalt be with me 
in paradise. 

7. (John 19.) Now there 
stood by the cross of Jesus, 
his mother, and his mother's 
sister, Marj^ of Cleophas, and 
Marj^ Magdalen. When Jesus 
therefore had seen his mother 
and the disciple standing whom 
he loved, he saith to his mother : 
Woman, behold thy son. After 
that, he saith to the disciple : 
Behold thy mother. And from 
that hour, the disciple took her 
to his own. 

8. (Mat. 27.) Now from 
the sixth hour there was dark- 
ness over the whole earth, until 
the ninth hour. And about the 
ninth hour Jesus cried with a 
loud voice, saying : Eli, Eli, 
lamma sabacthani ? that is, My 
God, my God, why hast thou 
forsaken me ? And some that 
stood there and heard, said : This 
man calleth Elias. Afterwards, 
Jesus knowing that all things 
were now accomplished, that the 
scripture might be fulfilled, 
said: I thirst. And imme- 
diately one of them running 
took a sponge, and filled it with 
vinegar; and put it on a reed, 
and gave him to drink. Jesus 
therefore, when he had taken 
the vinegar, said : It is con- 
summated. And the others 
said : Let be, let us see whether 
Elias will come to deliver him. 
And Jesus again crying with 
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Thy hands I commend my 
Spirit, jaelded up the ghost. 
And behold the veil of the 
temple was rent in two from 
the top even to the bottom, 
and the earth quaked, and the 
rocks were rent. And the 
graves w6.re opened : and many 
bodies of the saints that had 
slept arose, And coming out 
of the tombs after his resurrec- 
tion, came into the holy citj^ 
and appeared to many. Now 
the centurion and they that 
were with him watching Jesus, 
having seen the earthquake and 
the things that were done, were 
sore afraid, saying : Indeed 
this was the Son of God. And 
there were there many women 
afar off, who had followed 
Jesus from Galilee, ministering 
unto him: Among whom was 
Mary Magdalen, and Mary the 
mother of James and Joseph, 
and the mother of the sons of 
Zebedee. 

9. (John 19.) Then the 
Jews (because it was the pa- 
rasoeve,) that the bodies might 
not remain upon the cross on 
the sabbath day (for that was 
a great sabbath daj^,) besought 
Pilate that their leo^s misfht be 
broken, and that they might 
be taken away. The soldiers 
therefore came ; and they broke 
the legs of the first, and of the 
other that was crucified with 
him. But after they were 
come to Jesns, when they saw 
that he was already dead, they 
did not break his legs. But 
one of the soldiers with a spear 
opened His Side, and immedi 



ately there came out Blood and 
Water. — And he that saw it 
hath given testimony : and his 
testimony is true. And he 
knoweth that he saith true ; 
that you also may believe. — 
For these things were done, 
that the Scripture might be ful- 
filled : You shall not break a 
bone of Him. — And again an- 
other Scripture saith: They 
shall look on Him Whom they 
pierced. — 

10. Now after these things, 
Joseph of Arimathea (because 
he was a disciple of Jesus but 
secretly for fear of the Jews) 
besought Pilate that he might 
take away the body of Jesus. 
And Pilate gave leave. He 
came therefore, and took away 
the body of Jesus. And Nico- 
demus also came, (he who at 
the first came to Jesus by 
night,) bringing a mixture of 
myrrh and aloes, about an hun- 
dred pound weight. They took 
therefore the body of Jesus, and 
bound it in linen cloths, with 
the spices, as the manner of the 
Jews is to bury. Now there 
was in the place where he was 
crucified, a garden ; and in the 
garden a new sepulchre, where- 
in no man yet had been laid. 
There, therefore, because of the 
parasceve of the Jews, they 
laid Jesus, because the sepul- 
chre was nigh at hand. And 
they rolled a stone to the door 
of "the sepulchre. And Mary 
Magdalen, and Mary the mo- 
ther of Joseph, beheld where he 
was laid. 

(Mat. 27.) And there was 



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there Mary Magdalen, and the 
other Mary sitting over against 
the sepulchre. 

11. (Saturday, April 8, A. 
D. 33.) Now the next day, 
which followed the day of prep- 
aration, the chief priests and 
the Pharisees came together to 
Pilate, Saying : Sir, we have 
remembered, that that seducer 
said, while he was yet alive : 
After three daj^s I will rise 
again. Command therefore the 
sepulchre to be guarded until 
the third day : lest perhaps his 
disciples come and steal him 



away, and say to the people : 
He is risen from the dead ; and 
the last error shall be worse 
than the first. Pilate saith to 
them : You have a guard ; go, 
guard it as you know. And 
they departing, made the sepul- 
chre sure, sealing the stone, and 
setting guards. 

12. (Mark 16. Sunday, 
April 9, A. D. 33.) Now when 
the sabbath was past, Mary 
Magdalen, and Mary the mother 
of James and Salome, bought 
sweet spices that coming, they 
might anoint Jesus. 



PART IV. 



CHRIST'S RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION. 



1. (Mat. 28. Sunday, A. 
D. 33.) In the end of the sab- 
bath, when it began to dawn 
towards the first day of the 
week, came Mary Magdalen and 
the other Mary, to see the sep- 
ulchre. And behold there was 
a great earthquake. For an 
angel of the Lord descended 
from heaven, and coining, rolled 
back the stone, and sat upon it. 
And his countenance was as 
lightning and his raiment as 
snow. And for fear of him, the 
guards were struck with terror, 
and became as dead men. And 
Mary Magdalen, and Mary the 
mother of James the less and 
of Joseph, and Salome : en- 
tering into the sepulchre, saw a 
young man sitting on the right 
side, clothed with a white robe : 
and they were astonished. Who 
saith to them : be not affrighted ; 
you seek tlesus of Nazareth, who 
was crucified ; he is risen, he is 
not here, behold the place where 
they laid him. But go, tell his 
disciples and Peter that he 
goeth before you into Galilee ; 
there 3^ou shall see him, as he 
told you. But they going out, 
fled from the sepulchre. For a 



trembling and fear had seized 
them: and they said nothing 
to any man ; for they were 
afraid. 

2. (John 20.) Mary Mag- 
dalen ran, therefore, and cometh 
to Simon Peter, and to the 
other disciple whom Jesus loved, 
and saith to them : They have 
taken away the Lord out of the 
sepulchre, and we know not 
where they have laid him. Peter 
therefore went out, and that 
other disciple, and they came 
to the sepulchre. And they 
both ran together, and that 
other disciple did outrun Peter, 
and came first to the sepulchre. 
And when he stooped down, he 
saw the linen cloths lying ; but 
3^et he went not in. Then 
cometh Simon Peter, following 
him, and went into the sepul- 
chre, and saw the linen cloths 
lying, And the napkin that 
had been about his head, not 
lying with the linen cloths, but 
apart, wrapt up into one place. 
Then that other disciple also 
went in, who came first to the 
sepulchre : and he saw, and be- 
lieved. For as jet they knew 
not the scripture, that he must 

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rise again from the dead. The 
disciples therefore departed 
again to their liome. 

3. But Mary stood at the 
sepulchre without, weeping. 
Now as she was weeping, she 
stooped down, and looked into 
the sepulchre, And she saw 
two angels in white, sitting, 
one at the head, and one at the 
feet, where the body of Jesus 
had been laid. They say to her : 
Woman, why weepest thou? 
She saith to them : Because 
they have taken away my 
Lord ; and I know not where 
they have laid him. When she 
had thus said, she turned her- 
self back, and saw Jesus stand- 
ing ; and she knew not that it 
was Jesus. Jesus saith to her : 
Woman, why weepest thou ? 
whom seekest thou ? She, 
thinking that it was the gar- 
dener, saith to him : Sir, if 
thou hast taken him hence, tell 
me where thou hast laid him, 
and I will take him away. 
Jesus saith to her: Mary. She 
turning, saith to him : Rabboni, 
(which is to say, Master.) 
Jesus saith to her: Do not 
touch me, for I am not yet as- 
cended to my Father. But go 
to my brethren, and say to 
them : I ascend to my Father 
and to 3'our Father, to vay God 
and your God. Mary Mag- 
dalen Cometh, and telleth the 
disciples : I have seen the 
Lord, and these things he said 
to me. And they hearing that 
he was alive and had been seen 
by her, did not believe. 

4. (Mat. 28.) Now the other 



women went out quickly from 
the sepulchre with fear and 
great joy, running to tell his 
disciples. And behold Jesus 
met them, saying: All hail. 
But they came up and took 
hold of his feet, and adored him. 
Then Jesus said to them : Fear 
not. Go, tell my brethren that 
they go into Galilee, there they 
shall see me. 

(Luke 24.) And going back 
from the sepulchre, they told 
all these things to the eleven, 
and to all the rest. And it w^as 
Marj^ Magdalen, and Joanna, 
and Mary of James, and the 
other women that were with 
tliem, who told these things to 
the apostles. And these words 
seemed to them as idle tales ; 
and they did not believe them. 

5. ('Mat. 28.) Who when 
they w^ere departed, behold 
some of the guards came into 
the cit}^, and told the chief 
priests all things that had been 
done. And they being assem- 
bled together with the ancients, 
taking counsel, gave a great 
sum of money to the soldiers, 
Saying : Sa}^ you. His disciples 
came by night, and stole him 
away w^hen we were asleep. 
And if the governor shall hear 
of this, we will persuade him 
and secure 3^ou. So they tak- 
ing the mone}^, did as they were 
taught : and this word was 
spread abroad" among the Jews 
even unto this day. 

6. (Luke 24.) And behold, 
two disciples went, the same 
day, to a town which was sixty 
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Emmaus. And tliey talked to- 
gether of all these things which 
had happened. And it came to 
pass, that while they talked 
and reasoned with themselves, 
Jesus himself also drawing 
near, went with them. But 
their eyes were held, that they 
should not know him. And he 
said to them : What are these 
discourses that you hold one 
with another as you walk, and 
are sad ? And the one of them, 
whose name was Cleophas, an- 
swering, said to him : Art thou 
only a stranger in Jerusalem, 
and hast not known the things 
that have been done there in 
these days ? To whom he said : 
What things ? And they said : 
Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, 
who was a prophet, mighty in 
work and word before God and 
all the people; And how our 
chief priests and princes de- 
livered him to be condemned 
to death, and crucified him. 
But we hoped, that it was he 
that should have redeemed 
Israel : and now besides all 
this, to-day is the third day 
since these things were done. 
Yea and certain women also of 
our company affrighted us, who 
before it was light, were at the 
sepulchre. And not finding his 
body, came, saying, that they 
had also seen a vision of angels, 
who say that he is alive. And 
some of our people went to the 
sepulchre, and found it so as 
the women had said, but him 
they found not. Then he said 
to them : foolish, and slow 
of heart to believe in all things 



! which the prophets have spoken. 
Ought not Christ to have suf- 
fered these things, and so to 
enter into his glory ? And be- 
ginning at Moses and all the 
prophets, he expounded to them 
in all the scriptures, the things 
that were concerning him. And 
they drew nigh to the town, 
whither they were going : and 
he made as though he would 
go farther. But they con- 
strained him ; saying : Stay 
with us, because it is towards 
evening, and the day is now far 
spent. And he went in with 
them. And it came to pass, 
whilst he was at table with 
them, he took bread, and 
blessed, and brake, and gave 
to them. And their eyes were 
opened, and they knew him : 
and he vanished out of their 
sight. And they said one to 
the other: Was not our heart 
burning within us, whilst. he 
spoke in the way, and opened 
to us the scriptures? And ris- 
ing up, the same hour, they 
went back to Jerusalem : and 
they found the eleven gathered 
together, and those that were 
with them. Saying: The Lord 
is risen indeed, and hath ap- 
peared to Simon. And they 
told what things were done iii 
the wa3^ ; and how thej^ knew 
him in the breaking of bread, 
neither did they believe them. 

7. Now whilst they were 
speaking these things, Jesus 
stood in the midst of them, and 
saith to them : Peace he to 
3' on ; it is I, fear not. But 
they being troubled and fright- 



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ed, supposed that they saw a 
spirit. And he said to them : 
Wliy are you troubled, and wh}^ 
do thoughts arise in your 
hearts ? See my hands and 
feet, that it is I mj^self ; handle, 
and see : for a spirit hath not 
flesh and bones, as you see me 
to have. And when he had 
said this, he shewed them his 
hands and feet. But while they 
yet believed not, and wondered 
for joy, he said : Have you 
here an}^ thing to eat? And 
they offered him a piece of a 
broiled fish, and a honeycomb. 
And when he had eaten before 
them, taking the remains, he 
gave to them. 

8. (John 20.) The disciples 
therefore were glad, when they 
saw the Lord. He said there- 
fore to them again : Peace be 
to you. As the Father hath 
sent me, I also send you. 
When he had said this, he 
breathed on them : and he said 
to them : Receive ye the Holy 
Ghost. Whose sins you shall 
forgive, they are forgiven them ; 
and whose sins 3^ou shall re- 
tain, they are retained. 

9. Now Thomas, one of the 
twelve, who is called Didymus, 
was not with them when Jesus 
came. The other disciples 
therefore said to him ; We have 
seen the Lord. But he said to 
them : Except I shall see in his 
hands the print of the nails, 
and put my finger into the 
place of the nails, and put my 
hand into his side, I will not 
believe. And after eight days 
again his disciples were within. 



and Thomas with them. Jesus 
Cometh, the doors being shut, 
and stood in the midst, and 
said : Peace be to you. Then 
he saith to Thomas ; Put in thy 
finger hither, and see my 
hands ; and bring hither thy 
hand, and put it into my side; 
and be not faithless, but be- 
lieving. Thomas answered, 
and said to him : My Lord, 
and my God. Jesus saith to 
him ; Because thou hast seen 
me, Thomas, thou hast believed : 
blessed are they that have not 
seen, and have believed. 

10. (John 2L) After this, 
Jesus shewed himself again to 
the disciples at the sea of Ti- 
berias. And he shewed him- 
self after this manner. There 
were together Simon Peter, and 
Thomas, who is called Didy- 
mus, and Nathanael, who was 
of Cana of Galilee, and the sons 
of Zebedee, and two others of 
his disciples. Simon Peter saith 
to them : I go a fishing. They 
say to him : We also come with 
thee. And they went forth, 
and entered into the ship : and 
that night they caught nothing. 
But when the morning was 
come, Jesus stood on the shore : 
yet the disciples knew not that 
it was Jesus. Jesus therefore 
said to them: Ciiildren, have 
.you any meat ? They answered 
him : No. He saith to them : 
Cast the net on the right side 
of the ship, and you shall find. 
They cast therefore; and now 
they were not able to draw it, 
for the multitude of fishes. 
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Jesus loved, said to Peter : It 
is the Lord. Simon Peter, 
when he heard that it was the 
Lord, girt his coat about him 
(for he was naked,) and cast 
himself into the sea. But the 
other disciples came in the ship 
(for they were not far from the 
land, but as it were two hun- 
dred cubits,) dragging the net 
with fishes. As soon then as 
they came to land, they saw 
hot coals lying, and a fish laid 
thereon, and bread. Jesus saith 
to them: Brins^ hither of the 
fishes which you have now 
caught. Simon Peter went up, 
and drew the net to land, full 
of great fishes, one hundred 
and fifty-three. And although 
there w^ere so many, the net 
was not broken. Jesus saith 
to them : Come, and dine. And 
none of them who were at meat, 
durst ask him : Who art thou ? 
knowing that it was the Lord. 
And Jesus cometh and taketh 
bread, and giveth them, and 
fish in like manner. This is 
now the third time that Jesus 
was manifested to his disciples, 
after he was risen from the 
dead. 

11. When therefore they had 
dined, Jesus saith to Simon 
Peter: Simon, son of John, 
lovest thou me more than these ? 
He saith to him : Yea, Lord, 
thou knowest that I love thee. 
He saith to him : Feed my 
lambs. He saith to him again :' 
Simon, son of John, lovest thou 
me ? He saith to him : Yea, 
Lord, thou knowest that I love 
thee. He saith to him : Feed 



my lambs. He said to him the 
third time : Simon, son of John, 
lovest thou me ? Peter was 
grieved, because he had said to 
him the third time : Lovest 
thou me ? And he said to him : 
Lord, thou knowest all things : 
thou knowest that I love thee. 
He said to him : Feed my sheep. 

12. Amen, amen, 1 say to 
thee, when thou wast younger, 
thou didst gird thyself, and 
didst walk where thou wouldst. 
But when thou shalt be old, 
thou shalt stretch forth thy 
hands, and another shall gird 
thee, and lead thee whither 
thou wouldst not. And this he 
said, signifying b}' what death 
he should glorify God. And 
when he had said this, he saith 
to liim : Follow me. 

13. Peter turning about, 
saw that disciple whom Jesus 
loved following, who also leaned 
on his breast at supper, and 
said : Lord, who is he that 
shall betray thee ? Him there- 
fore w^hen Peter had seen, he 
saith to Jesus : Lord, and what 
shall this man do ? Jesus saith 
to him : So I will have him to 
remain till I come, what is it to 
thee ? follow thou me. This 
saying therefore went abroad 
among the brethren, that that 
disciple should not die. And 
Jesus did not say to him : He 
should not die ; but. So I will 
have him to remain till I come, 
what is it to thee ? This is that 
disciple who giveth testimony 
of these things, and hath writ- 
ten these things ; and we know 
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14. (Mat. 28.) Now the 
eleven disciples went into Gali- 
lee, unto the mountain where 
Jesus had appointed them. 
And seeing him they adored : 
but some doubted. 

15. (1 Cor. 15.) Tlien was 
he seen by more than five hun- 
dred brethren at once: of whom 
many remain until this present, 
and some are fallen asleep. 

16. After that, he was seen 
by James, then by all the 
apostles. To whom also he 
shewed himself alive after his 
passion, by many proofs, for 
forty days appearing to them, 
and speaking of the kingdom 
of God. 

17. (Mark 16.) At length 
he appeared to the eleven as 
they were at table : and he up- 
braided them with their incre- 
dulity and hardness of heart, be- 
cause they did not believe them 
who had seen him after he was 
risen again. And he said to 
them : Go ye into the whole 
world, and preach the gospel to 
every creature. He that be- 
lieveth and is baptized, shall be 
saved : but he that believeth not 
shall be condemned. And these 
signs shall follow them that be- 
lieve : In my name they shall 
cast out devils : they shall speak 
with new tongues. They shall 
take up serpents; and if they 
shall drink any deadly thing, it 
shall not hurt them : they shall 
lay their hands upon the sick, 
and they shall recover. 

(Luke 24.) These are the 
words which I spoke to you, 
while I was yet with you, that 



all things must needs be ful- 
filled, which are written in the 
law of Moses, and in the proph- 
ets, and in the psalms, concern- 
ing me. Then he opened their 
understanding, that they might 
understand the scriptures. And 
he said to them : Thus it is 
written, and thus it behoved 
Christ to suffer, and to rise 
again from the dead, the third 
day : And that penance and 
remission of sins should be 
preached in his name, unto all 
nations, beginning at Jerusa- 
lem. And 3'OU are witnesses 
of these things. And I send 
the promise of my Father upon 
you : but stay you in the city, 
till you be endued with power 
from on high. For John indeed 
baptized with water, but you 
shall be baptized with the Holy 
Ghost, not many daj's hence. 

18. Now he led them out as 
far as Bethania : and lifting up 
his hands, he blessed them. 

(Acts 1.) They therefore 
who were come together, asked 
him, saying: Lord, wilt thou 
at this time restore again the 
kingdom to Israel? But he 
said to them : It is not for you 
to know the times or moments, 
which the Father hath put in 
his own power : But you shall 
receive the power of the Holy 
Ghost coming upon you, and 
you shall be witnesses unto me 
in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, 
and Samaria, and even to the 
uttermost part of the earth. 
And when he had said these 
things, while they looked on, 
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received him out of their 
sight. 

19. Now while they were 
beholding him going up to 
heaven, behold two men stood 
by them in white garments. 
Who also said : Ye men of 
Galilee, why stand you looking 
up to heaven ? This Jesus who 
is taicen up from you into 
heaven, shall so come, as you 
have seen him going into 
heaven. 

20. Then they returned to 
Jerusalem from the mount that 
is called Olivet, which is nigh 
Jerusalem, within a sabbath 
day's journey. And when they 
were come in, they went up into 
an upper room, where abode 
Peter and John, James and 
Andrew, Philip and Thomas, 
Bartholomew and Matthew, 
James of Alpheus, and Simon 
Zelotes, and Jude the brother 
of James. All these were per- 
severing with one mind in 
prayer with the women, and 
Mary the mother of Jesus, and 
with his brethren. 

21. (A. D. 33.) In those 
days Peter rising up in the 
midst of the brethren said : 
(now the number of persons to- 
gether was about an hundred 
and twenty :) Men, brethren, 
the scripture must needs be 
fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost 
spoke before by the mouth of 
David concerning Judas, who 
was the leader of them that ap- 
prehended Jesus : Who was 
numbered with us, and had ob- 
tained part of this ministry. 
And he indeed hath possessed a 



field of the reward of iniquity, 
and being hanged, burst asunder 
in the midst : and all liis bow- 
els gushed out. And it became 
known to all the inhabitants of 
Jerusalem : so that the same 
field was called in their tongue, 
Haceldama, that is to say, The 
field of blood. For it is writ- 
ten in the book of psalms : Let 
their habitation become desolate, 
and let there be none to dwell 
therein. And his bishoprick let 
another take, 

22. Wherefore of these men 
who have companied with us all 
the time that the Lord Jesus 
came in and went out among 
us, beginning from the bap- 
tism of John, until the day 
wherein he was taken up from 
us, one of these must be made 
a witness with us of his resur- 
rection. And they appointed 
two, Joseph, called Barsabas, 
who was surnamed Justus, and 
Matthias. And praying, they 
said : Thou, Lord, who know- 
est the hearts of all men, shew 
whether of these two thou hast 
chosen, to take the place of 
this ministry and apostleship, 
from which Judas hath by 
transgression fallen, that he 
might go to his own place. And 
they gave them lots, and the 
lot fell upon Matthias, and he 
was numbered with the eleven 
apostles. 

23. (Acts 2.) Now when 
the days of the pentecost were 
accomplished, they were all to- 
gether in one place : And sud- 
denly there came a sound from 
heaven, as of a mighty wind 



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coming, and it filled the whole 
house where they were sitting. 
And there appeared to them 
parted tongues as it were of 
lire, and it sat upon every one 
of them : And they were all 
filled with the Holy Ghost, and 
they began to speak with divers 
tongues, according as the Holy 
Ghost gave them to speak. 
Now there were dwelling at Je- 
rusalem, Jews, devout men, out 
of every nation under heaven. 
And when this was noised 
abroad, the multitude came to- 
gether, and were confounded in 
mind, because that every man 
heard them speak in his own 
tongue. And they were all 
amazed, and wondered, saying : 
Behold, are not all these, that 
speak, Galileans ? And how 
have we heard, every man our 
own tongue wherein we were 
born ? Parthians, and Medes, 
and Elamites, and inhabitants 
of Mesopotamia, Judea, and 
Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 
Phrygia, and Pamphilia, Egypt, 
and the parts of Lybia about 
Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, 
Jews also, and proselytes, 
Cretes, and Arabians : we have 
heard them speak in our own 
tongues the wonderful works of 
God. And they were all as- 
tonished, and wondered, saying 
one to another : What mean- 
eth this ? But others mocking, 
said : These men are full of 
new wine. 

24. But Peter standing up 
with the eleven, lifted up his 
voice, and spoke to them: Ye 
men of Judea, and all you that 



dwell in Jerusalem, be this 
known to you, and with your 
ears receive my words. For 
these are not drunk, as you 
suppose, seeing it is but the 
third hour of the day ; But 
this is that which was spoken 
of b}^ the prophet Joel ; And 
it shall come to pass^ in the last 
days (sailh the Lord,) I will 
pour out of my Spirit upon all 
flesh : and your sons and your 
daughters shall prophesy, and 
your young men shall see 
visions, and your old men shall 
dream dreams. And upon my 
servants indeed, and upon my 
handmaids will I pour out in 
those days of my spirit, and 
they shall prophesy. And I 
will shew wonders in the heaven 
above, and signs on the earth 
beneath: blood and fire, and 
vapour of smoke. The sun 
shall be turned into darkness, 
and the moon into blood, before 
the great and manifest day of 
the Lord come. And it shall 
come to pass, that whosoever 
shall call upon the name of the 
Lord, shall be saved. 

25. Ye men of Israel, hear 
these words : Jesus of Nazar- 
eth, a man approved of God 
among you, by miracles, and 
wonders, and signs, which God 
did by him, in the midst of you, 
as you also know : This same 
being delivered up, by the de- 
terminate counsel and fore- 
knowledge of God, you by the 
hands of wicked men have 
crucified and slain. Whom God 
had raised up, having loosed 
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LIFE OF CHRIST. 



127 



impossible that be should be 
holden by it. For David saith 
concerning him : I foresaw the 
Lord be/ore my face: because 
he is at my right hand that I 
may not be moved. For this 
my heart hath been glad, and 
my tongue hath rejoiced : more- 
over my flesh also shall rest in 
hope. Because thou wilt not 
leave my soul in hell, nor suffer 
thy Holy one to see corruption. 
Thou hast made known to me 
the ways of life: Thou shall 
make me full of joy with thy 
countenance. Ye men, breth- 
ren, let me freely speak to you 
of the patriarch David ; that he 
died, and was buried; and his 
sepulchre is with us to this 
present day. Whereas there- 
fore he was a prophet, and 
knew that God hath sworn to 
him with an oath, that of the 
fruit of his loins one should sit 
upon his throne, Forseeing this 
he spoke of the resurrection of 
Christ. For neither was he 
left in hell, neither did his flesh 
see corruption. This Jesus 
hath God raised again, whereof 
all we are witnesses. Being 
exalted therefore by the right 
hand of God, and having re- 
ceived of the Father the prom- 
ise of the Holy Ghost, he hath 
poured forth this which j^ou 
see and hear. For David as- 
cended not into heaven ; but he 
himself said : The Lord said 
to my Lord, sit thou on my 
right hand, Until I make thy 
enemies thy footstool. There- 
fore let all the house of Israel 
know most certainly, that God 



hath made both Lord and 
Christ, this same Jesus, whom 
you have crucified. 

26. Now when they had 
heard these things, they had 
compunction in their heart, and 
said to Peter, and to the rest of 
the apostles: What shall we 
do, men and brethren? But 
Peter said to them : Do pen- 
ance, and be baptized every one 
of you in the name of Jesus 
Christ, for the remission of 
your sins: and you shall re- 
ceive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 
For the promise is to you, and 
to your children, and to all 
that are far off, whomsoever the 
Lord our God shall call. And 
with very many other words 
did he testify and exhort them, 
saying : Save j^ourselves from 
this perverse generation. They 
therefore that received his word, 
were baptized ; and there were 
added in that day about three 
thousand souls. And they were 
persevering in the doctrine of 
the apostles, and in the com- 
munication of the breaking of 
bread, and in prayers. And 
fear came upon every soul : 
many wonders also and signs 
were done by the apostles in 
Jerusalem, and there was great 
fear in all. 

27. Now all they that be- 
lieved, were together and had 
all things common. Their pos- 
sessions and goods they sold, 
and divided them to all, accord- 
ing as every one had need. And 
continuing daily with one ac- 
cord in the temple, and break- 
ing bread from house to house, 



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they took their meat with 
gladness and simplicity of 
heart ; praising God, and hav- 
ing favour with all the people. 
And the Lord increased daily 
tosjether such as should be 
saved. 

28. (Jolm 20. A. D. 33.) 
Many other signs also did Jesus 
in the sight of his disciples, 
which are not written in this 
book. But these are written, 
that you may believe that Jesus 
is the Christ, the Son of God : 



and that believing, you may 
have life in his name. 

(John 21.) But there are 
also many other things wJiich 
Jesus did ; which, if they were 
written every one, the world it- 
self, I think, would not be able 
to contain the books that should 
be written. 

(Mark 16.) But the apos- 
tles going forth preached every 
where : the Lord working with- 
al, and conGrming the word with 
signs that followed. 



(Maccab 15.) I will here make an end of my narration. 
Which if I have done well, and as it becometh the history, it is 
what I desired : but if not so perfectly, it must be pardoned me. 

(2 Cor. 13.) For the rest, brethren, rejoice, be perfect, take 
exhortation, be of one mind, have peace; and the God of peace 
and of love shall be with 3^ou. The grace of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, and the charity of God, and the communication of the 
Holy Ghost be with you all. Amen. 



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